Three: Petty Officer First Class A. W. May, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (125927, A. W. May. P.O.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (125927 A. W. May. P.O.1. R.N.) good very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (S.S.8288 R. J. Pugh. Ord. R.N.; J.80387 J. Harrower. Ord. R.N.; J.48566 E. R. Lesley. Boy 1 R.N.; J.52068 L. W. G. Smith,. Boy. 2 R.N.) first in named card box of issue, together with the recipient’s Driving Licence, generally very fine and better (7) £100-£140

Albert William May was born in Plymouth on 12 November 1868, into a family of sailors and fishermen, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 19 January 1884. Shore pensioned in 1906, he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve, and served during the Great War in the Armed Merchant Cruiser H.M.S. Columbella.

James Harrower was born in Clackmannon on 19 October 1900 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 30 October 1917. He died in service of bronchal pneumonia on 1 December 1919, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Clackmannon Cemetery.

Ernest Ralph Lesley served as a Boy Bugler.

Sold with various postcards and photographic images; and copied research.