One: Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class J. G. Young, H.M.S. Minion, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (268067, J. G. Young, C.E.R.A.1., R.N.) good very fine £30-£40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Battle of Jutland.

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The destroyer H.M.S. Minion was launched on 11 September 1915 and was part of the 11th Destroyer Flotilla at the Battle of Jutland.

James Gilbert Young was born in Portsmouth on 25 November 1872 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 21 March 1894. Advanced Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class on 9 June 1908, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 26 March 1909 and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Minion from her commissioning in November 1915 to 4 August 1916. He was shore pensioned on 24 December 1919.