Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Petty Officer G. H. Eaton, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (155012 G. H. Eaton. C.P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (155012 G. H. Eaton. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (155012 G. H. Eaton. C.P.O. H.M.S. Dædalus.) very fine (4) £80-£120

George Henry Eaton, a labourer from Beckenham, Kent, was born on 29 November 1874. Enlisting in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 4 May 1890, he was advanced Chief Petty Officer on 26 November 1912, and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Sutlej and at the R.N.A.S. Station H.M.S. Daedalus, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 March 1919. He was discharged to service with the newly created Royal Air Force on 31 March 1919, with service no. A.313985.