Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Engine Room Artificer First Class W. F. Burgess, Submarine Service, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (271123, W. F. Burgess. E.R.A.1., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (271123 W. F. Burgess. E.R.A.1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (271123. W. F. Burgess, E.R.A. 1Cl. H.M.S. Maidstone.) mounted court-style for display, good very fine (4) £100-£140

William Frederick Burgess was born in Shoreham, Sussex, on 11 February 1880 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class on 6 July 1903. Advanced Engine Room Artificer First Class, he joined the Submarine Service on 10 January 1912, and served during the Great War initially in H.M. Submarine E.10, leaving her in January 1915 just before she was lost with all hands off Heligoland Bight on 21 January 1915. Posted next to the submarine Depot ship H.M.S. Maidstone at Harwich, he became a ‘spare crew member’ filling in for anyone sick or on leave; as a result he presumably took part in numerous patrols in the North Sea. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in July 1918, and was shore pensioned on 21 August 1922.

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