Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sick Room Attendant J. Waterfield, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (M. 8366 S.R.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M. 8366 S.R.A., R.N.); Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (584 S.R.A., R.N.A.S.B.R.); St. John Service Medal, with ‘5 Years Service’ Bar (Pte., Hd. Qs. Div., Wellingboro. Corps, No. 3 Dist., S.J.A.B., 1917), generally very fine (5) £100-120

John Waterfield, who was born in Leicester in May 1866, enlisted in the Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve in August 1914, and would appear to have seen continuous service aboard a Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary vessel, the Agadir, from February 1915 until May 1919.