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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 216

Five: Sick Berth Petty Officer F. E. Staines, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (351269, F. E. Staines. S.B.S.2. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (351269. F. E. Staines. S.B.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., swivel suspension (351269 F. E. Staines. S.B.S. H.M.S. Conqueror.); Italy, Kingdom, Messina Earthquake Medal 1908, silver (351269. F. Staines. S.B.A. H.M.S. Minerva.), engraved naming, Star and V.M. sometime silvered, very fine (5)

Frederick Edward Staines was born on 7 May 1885 in Dudley. He joined the Royal Navy in June 1903 in the Sick Berth Branch. He saw service at the Royal Naval Hospital Plymouth and thence went afloat with Commonwealth, Niobe and Suffolk. He was lent to the Minerva and served ashore at Messina after the devastating earthquake of 1908.

During the Great War he served aboard the Devonshire until September, returning to the Navy Hospitals at Plymouth and Granton and then joined Conqueror. He was discharged in June 1922.


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Sold for
£900

Starting price
£270