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Three: Engineman S. F. Long, Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (E.S. 1509, S. F. Long....
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1914-15 Star (E.S. 1509, S. F. Long. Engn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (1509ES S. F. Long. Engn. R.N.R.), in named card box of issue, good very fine
Pair: Deck Hand A. J. Innes, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed in action on 17 June 1917, when H.M.T. Fraser struck a mine off Boulogne, France
British War and Victory Medals (12795D.A. A. J. Innes. D.H. R.N.R.) very fine
Pair: Chief Engineman J. W. Lambert, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed in action on 23 April 1916, when H.M.T. Lena Melling struck a mine off Broadstairs, Kent
British War and Victory Medals (542E.S. J. W. Lambert Ch. Engn. R.N.R.) very fine (8) £100-£140
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Samuel Frederick Long, an engineer from Lowestoft, Suffolk, was born on 28 September 1888. He worked in various drifters from Lowestoft and joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 16 December 1914, for service during the Great War. Serving in the H.M.D. Rooke, which was sunk in a collision off Lowestoft on 3 August 1916, and later in H.M.S. Ceto from where his Protection and Identity Certificate was issued on 4 January 1919, he later became a boilerman at Lowestoft gas works and died, aged 75, on 26 August 1964.
Sold with original damaged photograph of the recipient in uniform, his original Protection and Identity Certificate, copied service papers and copied research.
Alexander James Innes was born in Portknockie, Banffshire, on 12 December 1895. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 31 October 1916 for service during the Great War and was killed in action whist serving in H.M.T. Fraser when she stuck a mine and sunk off the French coast on 17 June 1917. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Sold with copied service papers and detailed copied research.
John William Lambert was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, on 29 March 1878. He attested into the Royal Naval Reserve on 10 August 1914 for service during the Great War and was killed in action whist serving in H.M.T. Lena Malling when she stuck a mine and sunk off the Kent coast on 23 April 1916. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Sold with a Cape Cod Pageant medallion, copied service papers and detailed copied research including a copied letter that he wrote to his ‘Dear Wife’ the day before his death saying ‘I have had to go to sea in this ship, but I am not going to stop in her. I am only here until the Second Engineman comes back off being sick on shore’.
1914-15 Star (E.S. 1509, S. F. Long. Engn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (1509ES S. F. Long. Engn. R.N.R.), in named card box of issue, good very fine
Pair: Deck Hand A. J. Innes, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed in action on 17 June 1917, when H.M.T. Fraser struck a mine off Boulogne, France
British War and Victory Medals (12795D.A. A. J. Innes. D.H. R.N.R.) very fine
Pair: Chief Engineman J. W. Lambert, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed in action on 23 April 1916, when H.M.T. Lena Melling struck a mine off Broadstairs, Kent
British War and Victory Medals (542E.S. J. W. Lambert Ch. Engn. R.N.R.) very fine (8) £100-£140
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Samuel Frederick Long, an engineer from Lowestoft, Suffolk, was born on 28 September 1888. He worked in various drifters from Lowestoft and joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 16 December 1914, for service during the Great War. Serving in the H.M.D. Rooke, which was sunk in a collision off Lowestoft on 3 August 1916, and later in H.M.S. Ceto from where his Protection and Identity Certificate was issued on 4 January 1919, he later became a boilerman at Lowestoft gas works and died, aged 75, on 26 August 1964.
Sold with original damaged photograph of the recipient in uniform, his original Protection and Identity Certificate, copied service papers and copied research.
Alexander James Innes was born in Portknockie, Banffshire, on 12 December 1895. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 31 October 1916 for service during the Great War and was killed in action whist serving in H.M.T. Fraser when she stuck a mine and sunk off the French coast on 17 June 1917. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Sold with copied service papers and detailed copied research.
John William Lambert was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, on 29 March 1878. He attested into the Royal Naval Reserve on 10 August 1914 for service during the Great War and was killed in action whist serving in H.M.T. Lena Malling when she stuck a mine and sunk off the Kent coast on 23 April 1916. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Sold with a Cape Cod Pageant medallion, copied service papers and detailed copied research including a copied letter that he wrote to his ‘Dear Wife’ the day before his death saying ‘I have had to go to sea in this ship, but I am not going to stop in her. I am only here until the Second Engineman comes back off being sick on shore’.
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