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Auction: 22003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 276

Four: Chief Yeoman of Signals H. E. Chalkley, Royal Navy, who served aboard H.M.S. Cochrane at Jutland and during the Murmansk intervention in 1918

Later posted to the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert he served aboard for eight years, three of them as Chief Yeoman of Signals

1914-15 Star (229904, H. E. Chaulkley, Y. S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (229904H. E. Chalkley. Y.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (229804 H. E. Chalkley, Yeo. Sigs. H.M.Y. Victoria & Albert.), pitting, contact marks and contact wear overall, nearly very fine (4)

Harold Edward Chalkley was born at Shanklin, Isle of Wight on 19 November 1887 and enlisted with the Royal Navy at St. Vincent on 26 January 1904 as a Boy Class II. Appointed Signaller with Victorious on 19 December 1905 and later Leading Seaman at Swiftsure on 1 December 1910.

Posted to H.M.S. Cochrane on 6 April 1913, he was still with that vessel at the outbreak of the Great War and was promoted Yeoman of Signals on 18 April 1915. Chalkley was still with this vessel when between March and September 1918 she was deployed to support the Allied Intervention in Murmansk. She was stranded in the Mersey Estuary on 14 November 1918 and Chalkley was posted to Victory I on 29 November.

Leaving Victory I on 30 June 1919 he joined the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert. Promoted Chief Yeoman of Signals here on 15 September 1924 he continued to serve here until he was pensioned on 18 December 1927. Returning briefly to service on 28 September 1938 he was demobilised again on 3 October; sold together with copied service papers and an old auction listing.

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Sold for
£160

Starting price
£130