Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Petty Officer G. J. Peters, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (G. J. Peters, Lg. Sea., H.M.S. Phoebe) official corrections to name; 1914-15 Star (137122 G. J. Peters, P.O.2. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (137122 G. J. Peters, P.O.2. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (137122 G. J. Peters, Comd. Btmn., H.M. Coast Guard) nearly very fine or better (5) £180-220

George James Peters was born at Mevagissey, Cornwall, on 21 November 1863. He joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman on 7 April 1886, being advanced to Able Seaman in August 1887, to Leading Seaman in April 1895, and to Petty Officer 2nd Class in May 1897. Joining the Coast Guard in March 1898, he became a Commissioned Boatman in March 1904 and received his L.S. & G.C. medal in January 1910. He was admitted to Victoria R.C. Hospital, Mumbles, on 9 December 1918, suffering from severe burns about the hands from contact with a fluid contained in an iron drum which was washed ashore in Limeslade Bay, Gower Peninsula, on 8 December 1918. He was demobilised on 13 March 1919. Sold with copied record of service.