Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Leading Seaman H. W. Tumman, Royal Navy, killed in action when the destroyer H.M.S. Strongbow was sunk by S.M.S. Brummer and Bremse, in the North Sea, 17 October 1917

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (J.472 A.B., H.M.S. Sphinx); 1914-15 Star (J.472 L.S. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.472 L.S. R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Herbert Wilfred Tumman) extremely fine (5) £300-360

Herbert Wilfred Tumman was born in Scawby, Brigg, Lincolnshire on 1 December 1890. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 12 February 1908 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in July 1908. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in December 1908 when on H.M.S. Minotaur and Able Seaman in March 1910 when on H.M.S. Bedford. He attained the rank of Leading Seaman in August 1914 when on H.M.S. Dufferin. Tumman entered service on H.M.S. Strongbow in November 1916.

Leading Seaman Herbert Wilfred Tumman, R.N. was killed in action when serving on the destroyer H.M.S. Strongbow, 17 October 1917. The ship was sunk by the German light cruisers S.M.S. Brummer and Bremse when escorting a Scandinavian convoy. The action took place some 75 miles east of Lerwick in the Shetlands. H.M.S. Strongbow sank with the loss of 47 officers and ratings out of a complement of 88.

With parchment certificate of service and gunnery and torpedo history sheets (2) in tube addressed to ‘Mrs E. Tumman, 9 Windsor Avenue, Lansdowne Street, Anlaby Road, Hull’; commemorative scroll; photograph of recipient; another of H.M.S. Strongbow; slip to accompany the 1914-15 Star trio of medals; N.G.S. in a leather case; W.W.1 medals in (damaged) named card boxes of issue; plaque with slip in card envelope.