A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners

Four: Engineer T. E. Legg, Mercantile Marine and Royal Naval Reserve
1914-15 Star (Engr. T. E. Legg, R.N.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Eng. Lt. T. E. Legg, R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Thomas E. Legg); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Eng. Lt. T. E. Legg, R.N.R.), the second with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (4) £50-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Thomas E. Legg, who was born in Penzance in 1859, was appointed an Engineer in the Royal Naval Reserve on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, in which month he joined the M.F.A. Peshawur, and he remained similarly employed until returning to his duties in the Mercantile Marine in May 1915; sold with brief details.