Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (K.65866 A. E. Page, Sto. 1, H.M.S. Repulse) good very fine £50-70

Leading Stoker Albert Ernest Page, Royal Navy, was killed in action, aged 41 years, when the destroyer H.M.S. Daring was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off Duncansby Head, North Scotland on 18 February 1940. Of the complement of 162 officers and crew only one officer and four ratings were saved. Albert Ernest Page was the husband of Lilian Elsie Page of Tipner, Portsmouth. His name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.