Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: C. F. Craven, C.E.A. 1st Class, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star Trio (347256 C.E.A.2., R.N.); Royal Navy Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (C.E.A.2Cl. ‘Gibraltar’, Northern Patrol 1918); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., Admiral’s bust (C.E.A.1Cl., H.M.S. Gibraltar); Messina Earthquake Medal 1908, unnamed as issued, contact marks and some edge bruising, generally nearly very fine or better (6)

R.N. M.S.M. London Gazette 24 March 1919. ‘For services in the Northern Patrol, submarine hunting flotilla between 1 July and 11 November 1918.’ Ian McInnes lists only three M.S.M. and Messina Earthquake Medal combinations in his book The M.S.M. to the Royal Navy.