The Ron Tuppen Collection of Naval Medals to Engine Room Officers

Seven: Artificer Engineer E. C. G. Starling, Royal Navy, awarded the Russian St. George Medal for Bravery for services on H.M.S. Kempenfelt at Jutland

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (E.R.A., H.M.S. Terrible) small impressed naming; China 1900, no clasp (E.R.A. 3Cl., H.M.S. Terrible); 1914-15 Star (268914 C.E.R.A.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Art. Eng., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (268914 C.E.R.A. 1Cl., H.M.S. Victory); Russia, St. George Medal for Bravery, 4th Class, silver, reverse lightly inscribed, ‘No.1029043’, this last with cut to edge, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (7)
£800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Ron Tuppen Collection of Naval Medals to Engine Room Officers.

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Ernest Charles George Starling was born in Lexden, Essex on 20 March 1875. A Fitter & Turner by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 20 January 1897, being confirmed in that rank in March 1898. He served on the cruiser Terrible, March 1898-October 1902, seeing service in the Boer and China Wars. Serving at Vernon, January 1903-February 1905, he was advanced to E.R.A. 2nd Class in October 1903 and C.E.R.A. 2nd Class in October 1904. He was promoted to C.E.R.A. 1st Class in September 1909 when on Britannia.

During the Great War he served on the destroyer leader Kempenfelt, December 1915-August 1917, seeing action at the battle of Jutland, for which action he was awarded the Russian St. George Medal for Bravery (ref. Admiralty Fleet Order 1774 of 1916 ‘Allied awards conferred on Men of the Grand Fleet by the Russian Government for services rendered in the battle of Jutland’). In September 1917 he was promoted to Artificer Engineer.

With copied service paper.