Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Cooks Mate (Chief Butcher) Walter Bird, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, killed when the S.S. Lusitania was torpedoed in May 1915

1914-15 Star (Ck. Mte., M.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Ck. Mte., M.F.A.) last medal officially re-impressed, nearly extremely fine (3) £300-400

Cooks Mate (Chief Butcher) Walter Bird was killed on 7 May 1915, when the S.S. Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland, near the Old Head of Kinsale. Sold with copy of medal roll which show that he qualified for his medals whilst serving aboard the S.S. Aquitania, the Lusitania’s sister ship.