Three: Electrical Artificer 1st Class C. M. Pickard, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (344827 E.A. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (344827 E.A. 1, R.N.), contact marks, especially to the second, thus good fine or better (3) £40-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Charles Mitchell Pickard was born in Plymouth in June 1877 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Electrician 4th Class. By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was serving as an Electrical Artificer 1st Class aboard the battleship H.M.S. Conqueror, and his subsequent wartime appointments were to the torpedo schoolship Defiance in November 1915; the armoured cruiser Sutlej in February 1916; the Defiance, again, in January 1917; Vivid III in May 1917, and, finally, in January 1918, the light cruiser Centaur. Pickard, who was also awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in April 1917, was pensioned ashore in June 1922.