Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (173093, R. Williams, P.O., R.N.) very fine £60-£80

D.S.M. London Gazette 11 August 1917.

Richard Williams was born in St. Germans, Cornwall, on 5 May 1878 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 8 May 1893. Advanced Petty Officer First Class on 29 January 1904, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 28 May 1911, and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Cleopatra from 1 June 1915 to 10 October 191, being promoted Chief Petty Officer on 7 September 1916, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. He was shore demobilised on 4 July 1919, and subsequently joined the Royal Fleet Reserve.

Sold with copied record of service.