Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Senior Reserve Attendant W. Laycock, Royal Navy Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve and St. John Ambulance Brigade

1914 Star (M.9750. W. Laycock, Sen.R.A. R.N.A.S.B.R.); British War and Victory Medals (M.9750 W. Laycock. S.R.A. R.N.); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (93. W. Laycock. S.R.A. R.N.A.S.B.R.); Service Medal of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, silver (Pte. W. Laycock (Colne Div. No.4. Dist. S.J.A.B. 1917.) good very fine and better (5) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Norman Gooding Collection.

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William Laycock was born in Colne, Lancashire, on 21 November 1881. A mill overlooker, he joined the Royal Navy Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve in August 1914, serving aboard the Hospital Ship Garth Castle from 3 December 1914 to 28 January 1919. A former passenger liner operated by the Union-Castle Line, the Garth Castle could accommodate 250 casualties. Mainly based at Scapa Flow, she was later posted to Archangel from 1918 to 1919 with the North Russia Expeditionary Force. Returned home, Laycock was invalided from service on 19 March 1919.