Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Gunner T. Lapworth, Royal Marine Artillery
1914-15 Star (R.M.A. 13430. Gr. T. Lapworth.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (R.M.A. 13430 Gr T. Lapworth.) heavy wear to VM, fine to good fine

Pair: Gunner A. J. Clifton, Royal Marine Artillery
British War Medal 1914-20 (R.M.A. 4388 Gr. A. J. Clifton.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (4388 James Clifton, Gunner. R.M.A.) very fine (4) £100-£140

Thomas Lapworth was born in Leicestershire on 15 March 1896 and attested for the Royal Marines on 17 April 1913. He served the majority of the Great War as Gunner aboard the battleship Marlborough, and was present at Jutland when she administered the coup de grace to the badly damaged German cruiser SMS Wiesbaden. Transferring to Headquarters on 1 January 1918, Lapworth was discharged at the termination of his first period of engagement in 1926.

Alfred James Clifton was born in Portsea on 14 July 1873 and attested for the Royal Marine Artillery on 14 August 1891. Mobilised on 2 August 1914, he witnessed active service with the R.M.A. at Ostend from 27 August 1914, before transferring to Headquarters in the winter of 1915-16.