Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Petty Officer T. Dempster, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (228929 T. Dempster. L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (228929 T. Dempster. P.O., R.N.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (228929. T. Dempster. P.O., H.M.S. Odin); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (228929 Thomas Dempster, P.O., H.M.S. Victory) generally very fine and better (5) £400-£500

Thomas Dempster was born in Comber, Co. Down on 15 May 1886 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 23 November 1903. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in May 1904 when in the old ironclad battleship H.M.S. Hercules; and to Able Seaman in February 1906 when in H.M.S. Crescent. Dempster served throughout the war in the Colossus class battleship H.M.S. Hercules from February 1914 to March 1919, being promoted to Leading Seaman in August 1915 and to Petty Officer in September 1917. He was serving aboard the ship at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 3 November 1919. After the war he served on the sloop H.M.S. Odin from July 1919 to September 1920, and served in operations on and off the coast of Somaliland. He was shore pensioned on 14 May 1926, and subsequently joined the Royal Fleet Reserve.

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