Four: Ordinary Seaman W. J. Liversage, Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine

British War Medal 1914-20 (J.59025 W. J. Liversage. Ord. R.N.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (William Liversage); Victory Medal 1914-19 (J.59025 W. J. Liversage. Ord. R.N.); France, Third Republic, Merchant Marine Medal for Courage and Devotion, silver, the reverse officially engraved, ‘Liversage, W., 1928’, verdigris spots to both MMWM and VM, nearly very fine and better (4) £140-£180

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2013.

William James Liversage was born in Wallasey on 9 November 1897, the son of William James Liversage, piermaster at New Brighton. He enlisted in the Royal Navy as Ordinary Seaman in September 1916 and served aboard the battleship Superb from January to June 1917. Transferred to the Milford Haven base Idaho for service aboard the P.62 from October 1917 to April 1918, he witnessed the final stages of the Great War aboard the decoy ship Bendish from October 1918. Demobilised in February 1919, he returned to his civilian employment as a merchant seaman and was awarded the French Merchant Marine Medal in 1928.

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