Three: Shipwright 3rd Class A. Johnson, Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1914 Star, with copy clasp (MY3/191. A. Johnson, A.B. R.N.V.R. Nelson Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (M.3-191 A. Johnson. Shpt.3 R.N.V.R.) contact marks, polished, nearly very fine (3) £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Recipients of the 1914 Star.

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Arthur Johnson was born in 1894. A carpenter by occupation, he enrolled in the Mersey Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 15 July 1912 and served as an Ordinary Seaman in the Dreadnought Class battleships Thunderer and Ajax between August 1913 and July 1914. During the Great War he served with the Nelson Battalion of the Royal Naval Division on the Western Front from 22 August 1914, almost certainly in the failed expedition to defend Antwerp, and returned to Devonport on 28 October. Appointed Shipwright in 1915, Johnson returned to sea in 1917, serving in the cruisers Edgar and Endymion, and after the war, on 7 May 1919, he transferred to the Royal Navy for Continuous Service as Shipwright 3rd Class.