Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Four: Chief Stoker A. J. Parkes, Royal Navy

China 1900, no clasp (Lg. Sto. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Marathon); British War and Victory Medals (157076 Ch. Sto., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S.& G.C., E.VII.R. (157076 Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Hermione), first and last with contact marks nearly very fine, other two good very fine (4) £130-160

Albert John Parkes was born in London on 11 August 1871. He entered the Royal Navy in September 1890, serving as a Stoker 2nd Class. He attained the rank of Chief Stoker in September 1905. Discharged at the end of the Great war, he was paid a War Gratuity. Sold with copied service papers and a copied photograph of the cruiser H.M.S. Hermione.