Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Lieutenant-Commander (Engineer) G. A. Gridgeman, H.M.S. Tiger, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (M.853, G. A. Gridgeman. E.R.A.3., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Art. Eng. G. A. Gridgeman. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, good very fine and better (8) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Battle of Jutland.

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Provenance: Ron Tuppen Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2013.

The battlecruiser H.M.S. Tiger was launched on 15 December 1913 and was part of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland, where she fired a total of 303 shells from her main guns during the battle, and was credited with one hit on the Moltke and two on the von der Tann.

George Atkinson Gridgeman was born in Hull, Yorkshire, on 24 September 1886 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 24 May 1909. Advanced Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class on 3 February 1913, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Tiger from 3 October 1914 to the end of the War, and was promoted Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class on 3 February 1916, and Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class on 1 May 1917. He was appointed Artificer Engineer on 1 May 1918 and was advanced to Commissioned Engineer in May 1928 and Lieutenant (Engineer) in March 1933. He retired in 1937 but returned to the service in 1940, becoming a Lieutenant Commander (Engineer) in 1942.

Sold together with the original documents appointing the recipient Artificer Engineer and Commissioned Engineer.