Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (Lieut. G. R. Curtis. R.N.V.R.) very fine £60-£80

George Roy Curtis was born at Cotham, Bristol in 1889 and was commissioned Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 25 January 1915. Volunteering for service with the Royal Marines, he served with the R.M. Cyclist Company, Royal Naval Division, during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War, and was wounded in action in the Dardanelles on 28 May 1915. Invalided to England on 21 June 1915, he rejoined his unit in Egypt on 1 September 1915, before being admitted to Hospital in Alexandria suffering from dysentery on 14 October 1915. Recovering, he was promoted Lieutenant on 7 February 1917, and was subsequently lent to the Canadian Government for service at Halifax Dockyard on 30 August 1918. He died in 1975.

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