Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Telegraphist C. A. Williams, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J.27800. C. A. Williams. Tel., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.27800 C. A. Williams. L. Tel. R.N.); Marine Society Reward of Merit, silver (C. A. Williams. 21. Apl. 1920) with original small ring suspension, good very fine (4) £80-£100

Clarence Arthur Williams was born in York on 1 January 1897 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 12 October 1913. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Russell from the outbreak of War until 1 May 1916, and then in H.M.S. Wellington from 2 May 1916 until the cessation of hostilities. He was invalided out of the Service with defective vision on 13 August 1919.