Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Engine Room Artificer First Class S. B. Wilde, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (270093, S. B. Wilde, E.R.A.1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (270093. S. B. Wilde. E.R.A.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (270093. S. B. Wilde, E.R.A. 1st Cl. H.M.S. Dido.) contact marks, otherwise generally very fine (4) £80-£100

Samuel Wilde was born in Conisbrough, Yorkshire, on 21 May 1875 and joined the Royal Navy on 6 March 1900. Advanced Engine Room Artificer First Class on 4 March 1913, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Lark and the depot ship H.M.S. Dido. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 February 1915, he was shore pensioned on 16 March 1922. He died, aged 71, in Kirkham, Lancashire, on 12 December 1945.