Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Able Seaman J. Looskan, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J.15977. J. Looskan. A.B. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.15977. J. Looskan. A.B. R.N.); Defence Medal; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J. 15977. J. Looskan. A.B. H.M.S. Mansittart.) monuted for display with a Royal Navy Cap Badge and Button, edge bruise to the last, slightly polished, good fine and better (5) £70-£90

John Looskan, an Apprentice Boot Repairer from Newcastle under Lyne, Staffordshire, was born on 3 October 1895. He attested into the Royal Navy as a Boy on 12 February 1912. Advanced Able Seaman on 11 August 1914, he served afloat during the Great War in H.M.S. Argyll, H.M.S. Sunflower, H.M.S. Colleen and H.M.S. Marlborough and was awarded his L.S.G.C. in 1928. Discharged to pension on 2 October 1935, he appears in the 1939 Register as a Coastguard Man in Durham, and died in Bristol, aged 58, around July 1954.

Sold with copied service papers and copied research.