Three: Mr. F. S. Riordan, Senior Draftsman, Admiralty
British War and Victory Medals (F. S. Riordan.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Francis Sidney Riordan) good very fine

1914-15 Star (183545, F. J. Dredge, Smmr. Mte., R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (S. Lt. C. Carter. R.N.V.R.) very fine (5) £100-£140

Francis Sidney Riordan was born on 29 October 1883 and joined the Admiralty as an Aprrentice Shipwright on 30 June 1898 based at Chatham. He served during the Great War as an Assistant Inspector of Shipwrights, and was advanced Senior Draftsman on 1 August 1939. He retired on 13 April 1946, and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal (London Gazette 21 June 1946).
Sold with copied research.

Sold with the following Royal Navy Documents
i) Parchment Certificate of Service for Patrick Murphy, Royal Navy, who joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 21 January 1891, and was shore demobilised on 23 March 1919, serving in H.M.S. Caroline at the Battle of Jutland.
ii) Second World War Parchment Certificate of Service for Dennis Stanley Humphries, Royal Navy.
iii) Second World War Parchment Certificate of Service for Leslie Ronald John Stevens, Royal Navy.