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Family group: Four: Stoker Petty Officer H. R. J. Prankard, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (303375, H. R. J. Prankard, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (303375 [sic]. H. R. J. Prankard. S.P.O. R.N.) ‘2’ is first digit on BWM; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (303375. H. R. J. Pankard [sic], S.P.O. H.M.S. Malaya.) contact marks, nearly very fine Nine: Chief Petty Officer Steward H. W. Prankard, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (P/LX22275 H. W. Prankard. P.O. Std. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (LX.22275. H. W. Prankard. C.P.O. Std. H.M.S. Adamant.) generally very fine or better Three: Staff Sergeant H. W. Prankard, Royal Engineers General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24233766 Spr. H. W. Prankard RE); U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP ribbon; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (24233766 SSGT H. W. Prankard RE) generally very fine (16) £300-£400 Henry Robert Joseph Prankard was born in Chatham, Kent in April 1880.
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Four: Officer’s Chief Cook F. S. Hill, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (364237, F. S. Hill, O.C.C., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (364237 F. S. Hill. O.C. 1., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (364237. F. S. Hill, O. Ch. Ck. H.M.S. Royal Sovereign.) generally very fine or better Three: Able Seaman C. H. Hill, Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve British War and Victory Medals (S.S. 7589 C. H. Hill. A.B. R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (SS.7589(PO.13819) C. H. Hill. A.B. R.F.R.) very fine (7) £140-£180 Frederick Stone Hill was born in Weymouth, Dorset in May 1881. He joined the Royal Navy as a Domestic 1st Class in November 1905, and advanced to Officer’s Chief Cook in October 1910. Hill served with H.M.S. Hyacinth (cruiser), July 1915 - June 1918, during which time she was the flagship of the Cape of Good Hope station, and was deployed to German East Africa to blockade the German light cruiser SMS Königsberg. She destroyed a German blockade runner attempting to bring supplies through the blockade in April and sank a German merchant vessel in early 1916. Hill was Shore Pensioned in May 1928. Charles Harrison Hill was born in Whitby, Yorkshire in March 1897. He joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman in August 1916, and advanced to Able Seaman in October 1917. Great War service included with H.M.S. Europa (cruiser), July 1917 - March 1918.
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Pair: Officers’ Steward Second Class G. A. Harvey, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Champion at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916 1914-15 Star (L.7630. G. A. Harvey. O.S.2., R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (L.7630 G. A. Harvey. O.S.2. R.N.) very fine 1914-15 Star (J.32644, J. E. Gascoyne, Boy.1., R.N.) attempted erasure of rate, nearly very fine Pair: Lieutenant H. E. F. Ralph, Canadian Forces, who was gassed on the Western Front on 18 August 1917 British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. E. F. Ralph.); together with a Southend-on-Sea Education Committee bronze medal for Regular Attendance, the reverse impressed ‘Harold Ralph 1905’; and five Canadian Masonic and Veterans badges, one in silver engraved ‘Corp. H. Ralph, Capt.’, very fine (5) £70-£90 George Albert Harvey was born in Wood Green, Middlesex, on 24 November 1895, and joined the Royal Navy for the duration of hostilities as an Officers’ Steward on 20 October 1915. He served in H.M.S. Champion from 8 December 1915 to 8 February 197, and was present in her at the battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. He was shore demobilised on 7 March 1919. James Edward Gascoyne was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, on 6 March 1898 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 30 October 1914. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Falmouth from 22 March 1915 to 26 August 1916, and was present in her at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, where she fired a total of 175 shells during the battle, the most of any British light cruiser. Gascoyne was also present in Falmouth when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-66 on the afternoon of 19 August 1916. Shortly after she was struck the armed trawler Cooksin went alongside and took off all the men not required to work the ship. Limping her way back to port at a speed of 2 knots, she was torpedoed again the following morning, this time by U-63, and sunk off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. Remarkably no one was killed in the attacks, but one man later died of his injuries. Advanced Leading Seaman on 6 February 1919, he was was shore discharged, time expired, on 6 March 1928. Harold Edmund Flower Ralph was born in Essex on 19 August 1887, and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Toronto on 12 April 1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 20 January 1917, he served during the Great War with the 18th Battalion on the Western Front from 30 April 1917, and was admitted to the 20th General Hospital suffering from the effects of Gas on 18 August 1917. Repatriated to the U.K., he was discharged on medical grounds on 30 November 1918, and died in Toronto on 13 October 1963.
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Three: Stoker First Class J. Hunter, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (SS.116788, J. Hunter, Sto. 2., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (SS.116788 J. Hunter. Sto. 1 R.N.); Defence Medal, with portrait photograph believed to be of recipient in uniform, good very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Payr. S. Lt. W. H. Brown. R.N.V.R.; 148344 W. Downer. Ch. Sto. R.N.) generally good very fine (5) £60-£80 John Hunter was born in Clackmannashire, Scotland in March 1892. He joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in February 1915, and advanced to Stoker 1st Class in November 1916. Service included with H.M.S. Royal Sovereign (battleship), April - June 1916, and H.M.S. Renown (battlecruiser), 1916 - 1917. Hunter was ‘Invalided’ out of service, 6 July 1917.
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