Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant T. C. Polwhele, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Centurion at the Battle of Jutland, and saw later service in submarines

1914-15 Star (Mid. T. C. Polwhele, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (S. Lt. T. C. Polwhele. R.N.) mounted for wear, traces of lacquer, contact marks, good fine (3) £80-£100

Thomas Cecil Polwhele was born on 16 September 1899. He attested as a Midshipman in to the Royal Navy on 1 September 1915 and served for the majority of the Great War in H.M.S. Centurion, in which he was present at the Battle of Jutland. Advanced Sub Lieutenant on 15 May 1918, he saw service at the end of the Great War in submarine U.B.21. Advanced Lieutenant on 15 May 1920, he was placed on the retired list as Medically Unfit, on 13 July 1921. He died, aged 33, less than two years later, as a result of Hodgkin’s disease, exhaustion and cardiac failure, on 23 February 1923.

Sold with copy service papers.