Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Stoker 1st Class W. H. Mead, Royal Navy

British War Medal 1914-20 (159049 W. H. Mead. Sto. 1 R.N.); Coronation 1911 (W. H. Mead, Stoker. H.M.S. Hampshire) last with contemporary engraved naming, mounted for display, generally very fine or better (2) £50-£70

Walter Herbert Mead was born in Weymouth, Dorset in November 1876. He joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in February 1891, and advanced to Stoker 1st Class in July 1906. Service included with H.M.S. Hampshire, 4 April - 4 December 1911. He was ‘Shore Pensioned’ on 21 February 1913, only to be recalled for service on 6 August 1914. Mead served for the duration of the Great War at H.M.S. Vernon, and was eventually discharged on 14 August 1919 (the above being his full entitlement). He died in Salisbury in September 1940.

Sold with copied service papers.