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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 71

x Family Group: An ´Indefatigable´ Battle of Jutland Casualty Group of Four to Petty Officer C. Wilson, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (193595, C. Wilson, P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (193595 C. Wilson. P.O. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ´Admiral´s bust´ type (193595 Charles Wilson, P.O. H.M.S. Indefatigable.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Deck Hand G. Wilson, Royal Naval Reserve British War and Victory Medals (11421D.A. G. Wilson. D.H. R.N.R.), good very fine, together with three Royal Ancient Order of Buffaloes Badges (10) Estimate £ 250-300 193595 Petty Officer Charles Wilson, born Mawnan, Cornwall, December 1881; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class, H.M.S. Impregnable, May 1897; Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Cambrian, December 1899; Able Seaman, H.M.S. Hyacinth, 15.10.1900; Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Cambrian, 29.12.1906; Petty Officer, H.M.S. Leander, 1.11.1912; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Indefatigable; killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5.1916, when H.M.S. Indefatigable suffered a number of direct hits to the magazine area and sank quickly with the loss of 1,014 lives out of a total crew of 1,017, and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. DA11421 Deck Hand George Wilson, born June 1882; enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve, 3.6.1916, three days after the death of his brother at Jutland; demobilised, 18.3.1920. Provenance: Spink, July 1989.

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