Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Chief Electrical Artificer First Class C. P. Stevens, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (345460. C. P. Stevens. C.E.A.2., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (345460 C. P. Stevens. C.E.A.2. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (345460. C. P. Stevens. Ch. Elect. Art. 2 Cl. H.M.S. Cornwall.) minor official correction to rate on LS&GC, contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £70-£90

Cyril Percival Stevens was born at Rochdale, Lancashire, on 14 June 1881 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Electrical Artificer Fourth Class on 13 September 1902. He was advanced Acting Chief Electrical Artificer Second Class on 1 April 1914, and served for the majority of the Great War in H.M.S. Cornwall, being present at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, and was confirmed in that rate on 1 April 1915. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 26 October 1917. Promoted Chief Electrical Artificer First Class on 1 April 1920, he was shore discharged on the reduction of the Navy on 3 August 1922. During the Second World War he served as a Mechanical Examiner at H.M. Torpedo Range, Weymouth.

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