Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Leading Seaman J. H. Peake, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (J. Peake, A.B., H.M.S. Highflyer); British War Medal 1914-20 (206154 J. H. Peake, L.S., R.N.) first with slight edge bruising, very fine and better (2) £120-160

Leading Seaman John Hubert Peake, Royal Navy, was killed in action on 24 June 1915 whilst serving aboard the pre-dreadnaught battleship H.M.S. Vengeance. His name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. In February / March 1915 the ship had been part of the naval squadron bombarding the forts guarding the Dardanelles and in April and May it had supported the Gallipoli landings, by July it was undergoing a refit in Devonport.