Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private S. Greenaway, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Pathfinder was torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine U-21 in the Firth of Forth on 5 September 1914

1914-15 Star (Ch.13484, Pte. S. Greenaway, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch.13484. Pte. S. Greenaway, R.M.L.I.) small verdigris spot to VM, good very fine and better (3) £100-£140

Sidney Herbert Greenaway was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, on 27 September 1882 and attested for the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 1 September 1902. Posted to H.M.S. Pathfinder on 1 October 1913, he served in her during the initial stages of the Great War, and was killed in action on 5 September 1914, when Pathfinder was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat SM U-21 off St. Abb’s Head in the Firth of Forth on 5 September 1914, and sank within four minutes with the loss of nearly all hands - the first ship ever to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired by a submarine. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

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