Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Able Seaman T. Brown, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hawke Battalion Royal Naval Division

1914-15 Star (CZ.1302 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (CZ.1302 A.B., R.N.V.R.) good very fine (3) £100-120

Thomas Brown was born on 25 April 1896. Employed as an Apprentice Sheet Iron Worker and living at 22 Hutchison Street, Govan, Glasgow, he entered into the R.N.V.R. on 21 October 1914. Serving in the Hawke Battalion R.N.D., he was slightly wounded in Gallipoli, receiving a gunshot wound to the right hand. He was admitted to the 1st Australian General Hospital at Heliopolis, 10 June 1915 and thence to the Convalescent Camp at Helouan, 16 June 1915. Recovering, he rejoined his unit at Gallipoli on 11 July 1915 but on 13 August 1915 was admitted to No.11 Casualty Clearing Station suffering from Diarrhoea. Transferred to the Hospital Ship Karroo the next day, he was sent to Malta, where his condition was diagnosed as Dysentery. He was invalided to England aboard the Hospital Ship Regina d’Italia and was treated at Haslar Hospital. From the 4th Reserve Battalion he was transferred to the Hawke Battalion, B.E.F. in November 1916 but was invalided back to England aboard the Hospital Ship Warilda in March 1917 following a severe gunshot wound to the left arm on 22 February. Returning to the Hawke Battalion in France in June 1917, he was admitted to the 9th General Hospital at Rouen in January 1918 suffering from Pleurisy and was again invalided to England. He was discharged in October 1918 suffering from Neurasthenia. Sold with copied service papers.