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Pair: Stoker 1st Class G. V. Parrett, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (K.13047 Sto. 1Cl., H.M.S. Espiegle); 1914-15 Star (K.13047 Tso.1 (sic), R.N.) contact marks and some edge bruising, very fine (2) £100-140

George Victor Parrett was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire on 28 September 1893. A Dairyman by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 13 October 1911. Serving on H.M.S. Espiegle, December 1912-April 1916, he was advanced to Stoker 1st Class in January 1913 and earned the N.G.S. with clasp for Persian Gulf. After Espeigle he served variously at/on Victory, Vernon, Cormorant until the end of the war. He retired from the Navy in October 1923 and later joined the R.F.R. With copied service paper.