Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Officer’s Steward H. N. Snook, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (365954, H. N. Snook, O.S. 1., R.N.), this gilded; British War and Victory Medals (365954 H. W. Snook. O.C.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (365954 H. W. Snook. O.S. 1. H.M.S. Vernon.); Russia, Empire, Medal of the Order of St. George, 4th class, silver, the reverse officially numbered ‘247835’ and the edge engraved ‘G. N. Chyki 1916’, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £200-£300

Henry Nelson Snook was born in Peckham, London, on 17 June 1887, and entered naval service on 9 May 1907 as a Domestic 3rd Class. He served as an Officer’s Steward and, then Chief Steward, in H.M. Ships Queen Elizabeth, Lord Nelson, Princess Royal, Renown, Repulse, Furious and others during the Great War. He was pensioned to shore on 28 October 1929, from H.M.S. Vivid, having been awarded his L.S. & G.C. on 8 November 1922.