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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 776

Three: Plumber R. J. Netherton, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (159918 R.J. Netherton. Pbr. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (159918 R.J. Netherton, Plumr., H.M.S. Duke of Edinburgh.), mounted Court-style for display, good very fine (3)

Richard James Netherton was born on 27 January 1869, at Plymouth, Devon. He commenced naval service as a Plumber’s Mate in H.M.S. Indus on (16 April 1891) and was advanced to Plumber in H.M.S. Vivid II, on 27 February 1896. Later service included the ships H.M.S. Indus, Europa, Niobe, Sutlej and Caernarvon. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in April 1906, Netherton was shore-pensioned from H.M.S. Actaeon on 1 April 1913, but was recalled for service in the Great War and appears to have spent most of the conflict serving in H.M. Hospital Ship St. Margaret of Scotland, which was provided and equipped for the Royal Navy by the Scottish branch of the British Red Cross Society. He was demobilised from H.M.S. Impregnable on 29 December 1919.

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