Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Chief Stoker J. H. Oddy, Royal Navy

British War Medal (142495 Ch. Sto. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Barham) impressed naming; Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful), (James Oddy R.N. Feb. 7. 1904) lacking ribbon buckle, good very fine (3) £140-160

R.H.S. Case No. 33,109: Lieutenant R. G. Coplestone and Stoker James Oddy, both of H.M.S. Porcupine, rescued Stoker Ben Mills, H.M.S. Seager, from the Glaurilke Dock, Dover, on 7 February 1904. Mills in returning to his ship fell into the dock between two vessels. It was three and a half fathoms deep, on a dark night, with six feet between the ships. The salvors both jumped in and managed to keep him afloat until ropes were got and he was hauled out.

James Horatio Oddy was born in Bermuda in 1865, and enlisted into the Royal Navy in 1887. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in October 1902 and was discharged to the Reserve in 1909. Sold with copy service papers.