Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Able Seaman G. Pope, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J.25367 G. Pope Ord. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.25367 G. Pope Ord. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.25367 J. Pope Ord. R.N.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £70-£90

George Pope, a van driver from Walthamstow, London, was born on 18 March 1897. Enlisting in the Royal Navy on 20 June 1913, he saw Great War Service in H.M. Ships Agincourt, Greenwich, Vulcan and Neptune. Promoted Able Seaman on 14 November 1918, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 9 March 1937. Shore pensioned on 3 June 1938, he was recalled on 18 September 1938, and served during the Second World War in H.M.S. Sheba, before he was invalided out of the Service on 30 November 1940.