Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (234454 A. E. Moore. A.B. R.N.; M.19123 R. Rawlinson. Wmn. 2 R.N.; Lieut. C. Pritchard. R.N.R.; Wt. Tel. L. G. Farthing. R.N.R.) second lacquered, light contact marks, generally very fine (4) £100-£140

Alfred Edward Moore, a Shop Boy, from Lambeth, London attested for the Royal Navy for Boy Service on 23 August 1905. Advanced Ordinary Seaman on 1 March 1907 and Able Seaman on 18 February 1908, he saw service during the Great War in H.M.S. Weymouth in East Africa Waters against SMS Königsberg, eventually trapping her in the Rufiji River until she was sunk on 11 July 1915. Moore died of wounds, specifically of Epileptic Mania, thirteen days later in H.S. Guildford Castle on 24 July 1915. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

Reginald Rawlinson was born in Anfield, Liverpool on 18 February 1898. He attested for service with the Royal Navy during the Great War, and was killed when H.M.S. Vanguard, at anchor in Scapa Flow, suffered a series of magazine explosions shortly before midnight on 9 July 1917: she sank almost instantly, killing 843 of the 845 men aboard. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

Charles Pritchard was Born in Caernarfon, Wales in 1859. He was commissioned into the Royal Naval Reserve and served during the Great War in Aden in the coaster H.M.S. Skelwith, which was engaged in a patrol in the Straits of Perim, where the vessels employed on the coast had little excitement beyond an occasional boat action with dhows attempting to evade the naval blockade. He died, following a stroke, on 14 March 1916, aged 56 and is buried in Perim Cemetery, Yemen.

Llewelyn Garfield Farthing was born in Builth Wells, Breconshire, on 30 May 1884. He attested for the Royal Naval Reserve and was commissioned Warrant Telegraphist on 28 March 1917, serving in H.M.S. Duke. He was later appointed Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 24 July 1942 and saw service with the Technical Branch, attached to 214 Group, in Italy, during the Second World War. He died of heart failure, aged 60, on 29 October 1944 and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Bari War Cemetery, Italy.