Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Able Seaman H. G. Goord, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (194606. H. G. Goord. A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (194606. H. G. Goord. A.B. R.N.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Horace Goldsmith Goord) trio mounted incorrectly for wear, light contact marks, good very fine and better (4) £60-£80

Horace Goldsmith Goord, an upholsterer from Brighton, Sussex, was born on 26 September 1880. He attested into the Royal Navy as a Boy on 28 July 1897 and was advanced Able Seaman on 1 April 1900. Discharged on 29 April 1905, he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day and served during the Great War from 2 August 1915 in H.M.S. Minerva, initially with the 5th Cruiser Squadron intercepting enemy merchant shipping trying to return to Germany; after later escorting a troop convoy to Egypt, she then served at Gallipoli, supported the landings at Cape Helles in April and at Suvla Bay before deployment to the China Station in 1916. He later served in the Armed Merchant Cruiser H.M.S. Cameron and the Greek ship Salaminia. Discharged to shore on 7 February 1919, he was later awarded the Imperial Service Medal for his service as a Postman in Brighton (London Gazette 11 February 1941), where he died in 1962.

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