Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Mechanican A. Greig, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (279970 A. Greig. Mech. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (279970 Alexander Greig. Mechn. H.M.S. Hyacinth.) mounted as worn, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (3) £60-£80

Alexander Greig, an Iron Moulder from Edinburgh, was born on 23 June 1876 and attested for the Royal Navy on 2 July 1895. Advanced Mechanican on 17 January 1910, he saw service during the Great War in H.M.S. Hyacinth on the Cape Station in South Africa, during which time she was deployed to German East Africa to blockade the German light cruiser SMS Königsberg. She destroyed a German blockade runner attempting to bring supplies through the blockade in April and sank a German merchant vessel in early 1916. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 29 May 1916 and saw later service in H.M.S. Achilles before being demobilised on 28 February 1919, subsequently joining the Royal Fleet Reserve.