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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 444

Four: Chief Petty Officer L.R. Lilley, Royal Navy, who served at the Battle of Jutland on H.M.S. Champion

1914-15 Star (172579, L. R. Lilley, P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (172579 L. R. Lilley. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (172579 L. R. Lilley, P.O., H.M.S. Formidable.), mounted together court style for display, light contact marks, very fine (4)

Provenance:
Noonan's, July 2021.

Louis Robert Lilley was born at Brabourne, Kent on 25 November 1876 and commenced his naval service as a Boy 2nd Class with H.M.S. Impregnable on 22 March 1893. Advanced to Petty Officer, he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. in November 1909.

Lilley served on Champion at the Battle of Jutland. Champion was commissioned into service in the Royal Navy on 20 December 1915. She was assigned to the Grand Fleet upon completion, serving as the leader of the 13th Destroyer Flotilla at the Battle of Jutland.

Lilley joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on 20 November 1916 and was shore demobilised in the rate of Chief Petty Officer on 13 March 1919. He subsequently joined the New Coast Guard Force on 8 May 1919, and his medals for service in the Great War were sent to H.M. Coast Guard Station Rosyth; sold together with copied service papers.

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Sold for
£140

Starting price
£70