Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Stoker E. F. Colcombe, H.M.S. Marlborough, Royal Navy, who died on active service during the Second World War

1914-15 Star (311856 E. F. Colcombe, S.P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (311856 E. F. Colcombe, S.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (311856 E. F. Colcombe, S.P.O. R.N. H.M.S. Harebell.) the silver medals polished, nearly very fine (4) £160-£200

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. Marlborough was launched on 24 October 1912 and was part of the 1st Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland.

Edgar Francis Colcombe was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 7 June 1885, and joined the Royal Navy on 18 July 1907. The majority of his Great War service was in H.M.S. Marlborough. He also later served in H.M.S. Attentive, in operations around Murmansk after the Russian revolution. His Great War medals were sent to him in H.M.S. Harebell, in which ship he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 27 July 1922. Promoted Chief Stoker on 19 August 1925, he was pensioned on 1 July 1939, just six weeks before being recalled for service during the Second World War on 26 August 1939 in H.M.S. Drake. He died in service on 25 July 1945, aged 60, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Southend-on-Sea Cemetery, Essex.