Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Petty Officer G. F. Brown, Royal Navy, who died of disease on 23 August 1918

1914-15 Star (226773. G. F. Brown. P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (226773. G. F. Brown. P.O. R.N.); Naval Good Shooting Medal, E.VII.R. (226773. G. F. Brown, Ldg. Sean., H.M.S. Yarmouth. 1914. 6in. B.L.) nearly extremely fine (4) £340-£380

Gilbert Francis Brown was born in Camberwell, London, on 19 January 1888, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 4 June 1903. Advanced Petty Officer on 1 January 1915, he served during the Great War in the armed merchant cruiser H.M.S. Mantua from 5 November 1917, and died of pneumonia on 23 August 1918. He is buried at King Tom Cemetery, Freetown, Sierra Leone.