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Auction: 21102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 3
Lot: 242

Five: Stoker 1st Class E. C. Terry, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (K.18713, E. C. Terry, Sto. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.18713 E. C. Terry. Sto. 1. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn, polished overall, fine (5)

Edward Charles Terry was born on 1 September 1892 at Edmonton, London and was a butcher upon his joining the Royal Navy on 21 April 1913. He served aboard Zealandia from 12 October 1913-25 July 1917 and remained in the Royal Navy after the Great War. During the Second World War he served aboard Coventry from 22 August 1939-May 1940. Terry would have been present when she was damaged on 1 January 1940 in a German air attack on the Shetland Islands. He was invalided due to heart disease on 6 November 1940.

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