Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Electrical Artificer G. H. Cooke, H.M.S. Orion, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (M.2708 G. H. Cooke. E.A.3., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.2708. G. H. Cooke. E.R.A.2. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.2708. G. H. Cooke. C.E.A.1 H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth) minor official correction to ship’s name on last, polished, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Battle of Jutland.

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The dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Orion was launched on 20 August 1910 and was part of the 2nd Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland, where she engaged the German battleship Markgraf and the battle cruiser Lützow.

Griffith Harold Cooke was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 9 March 1899, and joined the Royal Navy on 18 November 1910, serving as an Electrician 4th Class in H.M.S. Defiance. He served for the entirety of the Great War as an Electrical Artificer in H.M.S. Orion, before being advanced Chief Electrical Artificer in H.M.S. Defiance on 9 May 1919. He transferred to H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth on 9 May 1925, and was awarded his Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in February 1926. He died in 1957.

Sold with copied record of service and other research.