Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Great War Memorial Plaque to Stoker P. Connolley, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Hampshire was sunk on 5 June 1916

Memorial Plaque (Patrick Connolley) some verdigris, very fine £80-£100

Patrick Connolley was killed in action whilst serving in H.M.S. Hampshire when she, conveying Field Marshal Lord Kitchener on a diplomatic mission to Russia, struck a German mine off the Orkney Islands on 5 June 1916 and sank within 15 minutes with the loss of 737 lives. There were only 12 survivors. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.