Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Stoker T. Bate, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (132248 T. Bate Ch. Sto. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (132248 T. Bate Ch. Sto. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Thos. Bate Ldg. Sto. 1Cl. H.M.S. Rupert) good very fine (4) £140-£180

Thomas Bate, a labourer from Landulph, Saltash, Cornwall, was born on 25 February 1866. Enlisting in the Royal Navy on 7 April 1885, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1899, and was promoted Chief Stoker on 4 February 1906. Shore pensioned on 25 April 1907, he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve two days later. Recalled for service during the Great War, he served in H.M.S. Revenge during the coastal bombardment of Neiuwpoort, Belgium in November 1914. The following month, Revenge was damaged by a German artillery shell. He afterwards served in H.M.S. Redoubtable on similar duties, until invalided, to pension, from the service with disease of the brain in 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge no. 13416.