Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Engineman L. V. H. Gibson, Royal Naval Reserve, killed when H.M. Drifter Rooke was sunk in a collision, 3 August 1916

1914-15 Star (ES.444 Engn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (444 E.S., Engn., R.N.R.) last with correction to naming; Memorial Plaque (Lionel Victor Henry Gibson) this last in card envelope, extremely fine (5) £140-180

Lionel Victor Henry Gibson was born in Windsor, Berkshire on 19 October 1884. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in February 1900 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in November the same year. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in October 1902 when on Minerva and to Able Seaman in July 1904 when on Bedford. He was invalided from the service in June 1906 due to an old injury. During the Great War he lived at 7 Abbott’s Hill, Ramsgate, Kent and served as an Engineman in the R.N.R. He was killed when his ship, H.M. Drifter Rooke, was in collision with another vessel off Deal on 3 August 1916. His name is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

With newspaper clipping re the loss of three Ramsgate men in the incident; a copied newspaper extract bearing a photograph and copied service papers. Also with damaged card boxes for the medals and a Princess Mary Christmas tin (empty).