Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. P. A. G. Falconer. R.N.R.) extremely fine £80-£120

See Dix Noonan Webb sale of 4/5th March 2020 for this officer’s 1914-15 Star.

Percy Albert Gordon Falconer, Acting Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, was killed whilst serving in H.M. Submarine E-10 on 21 January 1915, when the boat was lost off Heligoland in the North Sea, thought to have been the victim of a moored mine. He is commemorated by name on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

A team of German divers recently found the wreck of the British Submarine E-10 in Heliogland in the North Sea. The team reported that E-10 is listing to starboard, is essentially intact, and damage to her starboard ballast tanks confirm she probably struck a mine. All her torpedo tubes were empty, and the conning tower was also damaged. It was necessary to untangle fishing nets, and scrape away years of marine growth from her starboard propellor to find the Number 431 engraved on it. Vickers of Barrow built this boat pre WW1, and by checking their records, it was found that they supplied and fitted that particular propellor to E-10.