Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star, with copy clasp (B2/1222 J. J. Mathews, Act. A.B. R.N.V.R., Benbow. Bttn. RND) very fine £70-£90

Joseph James Mathews, a Labourer from Bristol, was born on 27 July 1895. He attested into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 27 June 1913. He served during the Great War, with the Benbow Battalion, Royal Naval Division, on the Western Front and was interred in Holland on 8 October 1914. Repatriated on 19 November 1918, he was demobilised on 4 February 1919. The award of a clasp to his 1914 Star is confirmed.