Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Surgeon-Commander P. H. Bannister, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Surgn. P. H. Bannister, R.N., H.M.S. Rattler.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (St. Surg. P. H. Bannister, M.B., R.N., H.M.S. Fox.); 1914-15 Star (Ft. Surg. P. H. Bannister. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Commr. P. H. Bannister. R.N.) mounted court-style as worn, good very fine (5) £700-£900

Percy Hooper Bannister was born on 31 August 1873 in Havant, Hampshire. He joined the Royal Navy as a Surgeon on 8 September 1898, being appointed to H.M.S. Victory for Haslar Hospital. He was appointed to Benbow on 9 February 1900, and to Rattler on 14 February 1901, serving in this gun boat on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa station. From November 1903 he served in H.M. Ships Northampton and Hawke, both employed as sea going training ships for boys. He was promoted to Staff Surgeon in November 1906 and appointed to Vernon, torpedo school at Portsmouth. In October 1908 he was appointed to H.M.S. Skirmisher attached to the Channel Fleet, and in November 1912 to H.M.S. Fox on the East Indies station. He was promoted to Fleet Surgeon in November 1914 and was still serving in Fox in 1915. In September 1916 he was appointed to H.M.S. Briton, Drill Ship for Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve where he remained until he was placed on the retired list at his own request on 14 December 1919. He died at Altrincham, Cheshire on 21 December 1942.

Sold with copied record of service and photographs of his various ships.