A Great War campaign service group of four awarded to Leading Stoker E. White, Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve

1914-15 Star (284081 E. White, Sto. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (284081 E. White, L. Sto., R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., Admiral’s bust (284081 Dev. B. 708 E. White, Sto. 1, R.F.R.), generally very fine (4) £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Exceptional Naval and Polar Awards from the Collection of RC Witte.

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Enoch White was born at Crediton, Devon, in December 1875, and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in December 1896. Advanced to Stoker in the following year, he purchased his discharge in May 1904, when he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve. Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, White joined the cruiser H.M.S. Doris as a Stoker 1st Class, and remained similarly employed until coming ashore to Vivid II in January 1917, in which period he witnessed action in the Dardanelles. His final seagoing appointment was in another cruiser, the Isis, from June 1917 until February 1919, when he was demobilised; sold with copied service record.