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An Unusual Royal Navy Long Service Medal Group of Four to the Petty Officer Who Piped Rear-Admiral M
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An Unusual Royal Navy Long Service Medal Group of Four to the Petty Officer Who Piped Rear-Admiral Meurer on Board H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, the British Flagship, at the Surrender of the German Fleet in November 1918, 1914-15 Star medal, British War and Victory medals, “170905 L. GOFF P.O.2. R.N.”, Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct medal, 1st type, “170905 LEWIS GOFF BOATN HMS COASTGUARD”. Medals accompanied by his Boatswains Call on its chain, the one used to pipe the German Admiral aboard H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, newspaper cuttings from December 1939 relating to Goff’s service in World War One, birth, marriage and death certificates, various photographs, Royal Navy and Coast Guard certificates of service, Torpedo and Gunnery History sheets, HMS Queen Elizabeth Christmas Card dated 1919, a souvenir booklet for the surrender of the German Navy, November 1918 and an Admiralty shoe horn. Lewis/Louis Goff was born on 8th August 1876 in Calshot Castle, Hampshire. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 5th December 1892. Advancing to Petty Officer 2nd Class in July 1902 on Royal Sovereign he moved to the Coast Guard Service in Northern Ireland in March 1905. Awarded his Long Service medal in February 1912 the transferred back to the Navy in August 1914 serving in H.M.S. Excellent (Portsmouth) before moving to the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth on 22nd December 1914. Serving the whole of the war on the same ship he was present in November 1918 when he had the dubious honour of piping on board German Rear-Admiral Meurer, the representative of Admiral Franz von Hipper, to negotiate the details of the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet with Admiral Beatty. Post war he once again joined the Coast Guard Service until his retirement in May 1920. In December 1939 the Daily Mail ran an article on the ‘man who piped defeated Admiral aboard’ with photos of Goff saluting the German Admiral, his Boatswains Call and a picture of Goff in later life blowing the Call, he expressed his wish to be able to pipe aboard another defeated enemy Admiral in the current war but sadly this was not to be as he died of chronic bronchitis at St. Austell, Cornwall, on January 17th 1941.
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An Unusual Royal Navy Long Service Medal Group of Four to the Petty Officer Who Piped Rear-Admiral Meurer on Board H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, the British Flagship, at the Surrender of the German Fleet in November 1918, 1914-15 Star medal, British War and Victory medals, “170905 L. GOFF P.O.2. R.N.”, Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct medal, 1st type, “170905 LEWIS GOFF BOATN HMS COASTGUARD”. Medals accompanied by his Boatswains Call on its chain, the one used to pipe the German Admiral aboard H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, newspaper cuttings from December 1939 relating to Goff’s service in World War One, birth, marriage and death certificates, various photographs, Royal Navy and Coast Guard certificates of service, Torpedo and Gunnery History sheets, HMS Queen Elizabeth Christmas Card dated 1919, a souvenir booklet for the surrender of the German Navy, November 1918 and an Admiralty shoe horn. Lewis/Louis Goff was born on 8th August 1876 in Calshot Castle, Hampshire. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 5th December 1892. Advancing to Petty Officer 2nd Class in July 1902 on Royal Sovereign he moved to the Coast Guard Service in Northern Ireland in March 1905. Awarded his Long Service medal in February 1912 the transferred back to the Navy in August 1914 serving in H.M.S. Excellent (Portsmouth) before moving to the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth on 22nd December 1914. Serving the whole of the war on the same ship he was present in November 1918 when he had the dubious honour of piping on board German Rear-Admiral Meurer, the representative of Admiral Franz von Hipper, to negotiate the details of the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet with Admiral Beatty. Post war he once again joined the Coast Guard Service until his retirement in May 1920. In December 1939 the Daily Mail ran an article on the ‘man who piped defeated Admiral aboard’ with photos of Goff saluting the German Admiral, his Boatswains Call and a picture of Goff in later life blowing the Call, he expressed his wish to be able to pipe aboard another defeated enemy Admiral in the current war but sadly this was not to be as he died of chronic bronchitis at St. Austell, Cornwall, on January 17th 1941.
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