Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (Eng. Lt. J. Stevens. R.N.; Pay. S. Lt. C. M. Barnes. R.N.R.; Wt. Tel. W. Thornton-Inman. R.N.R.; Lieut. J. E. Manson. R.N.V.R.) minor edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (4) £80-£100

J. Stevens was commissioned into the Royal Navy for service during the Great War and served in H.M.S. Comet from 1915 until she was sunk on 6 August 1918, after a large explosion while under tow after collision damage. She was thought to have been torpedoed, but no submarine ever claimed the sinking.

George Walter Thornton-Inman was born on 12 February 1894 in Hammersmith, London, and was commissioned into the Royal Naval Reserve for service during the Great War, initially serving in H.M.S. Sorrento. He was later commissioned into the Royal Air Force and died on the Isle of Wight in 1924, aged 30.

John Erik Manson, a native of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 15 September 1917. Appointed Temporary Lieutenant on 12 November 1918, he was demobilised on 27 January 1920.