Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Engineman J. L. Everard, Royal Naval Reserve

1914-15 Star (ES. 4028. J. L. Everard, Engn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (4028ES. J. L. Everard. Engn. R.N.R.) nearly very fine (3) £30-£40

John Larter Everard enrolled for the Royal Naval Reserve at Yarmouth on 14 September 1915. His first boat was the Great Yarmouth drifter J.C.P. (Admiralty No. 1877) parented at Dover by H.M.S. Attentive III. She was sunk in a collision with the patrol vessel P.27 off Folkestone early on the morning of 22 March 1918. All the crew were saved. After a brief posting to H.M.S. Victory at Portsmouth, he joined the Admiralty-owned trawler H.M.S. Christopher Dixon on 15 April 1918, based at Portland, Dorset. He was demobilised on 10 June 1919. Sold with copied R.N.R. record of service which notes that he applied for the restoration of the Queen’s and King’s South Africa medals awarded to him as No. 1361 Pte. J. Bates, Coldstream Guards, which were subsequently forfeited (result not given).