Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Shipwright First Class T. Penna, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (T. Penna Shipwt. H.M.S. “Thalia”.); 1914-15 Star (117873, T. Penna, Shpt.1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (117873 T. Penna. Shpt.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Thos. Penna, Carp Mate, H.M.S. Vivid); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, nearly very fine and better (6) £300-£400

Thomas Penna was born in Falmouth, Cornwall, on 12 November 1860 and joining the Royal Navy at Devonport on 8 February 1882. Sent initially to the ironclad battleship Valiant, he later served aboard the wooden screw corvette Thalia during the Egyptian campaign of 1882. Raised Carpenter’s Mate on 1 July 1889, and Shipwright on 12 November 1902, Penna was further advanced Shipwright 1st Class aboard the pre-dreadnought battleship Caesar on 2 August 1914. Brought back into full commission, Caesar was soon involved in transporting the Plymouth Marine Division from Plymouth to Ostend in Belgium. She subsequently transferred to Gibraltar as a guard ship and gunnery training ship before being deployed to Bermuda and tasked with patrolling the Atlantic. Returned home to Devonport on 5 June 1917, Penna was discharged and transferred to dockyard employment on 23 July 1917.

Sold with copied record of service.