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Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1916, unnamed a...
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Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1916, unnamed as issued; together with a circular silver Snuff Box, the lid engraved ‘Capt. E. J. Minster from W. E. J. Sept. 1901’, good very fine £100-£140 --- Edward James Minister was born at Cardigan, South Wales, in 1870. He qualified for the Merchant Marine on 28 August 1890 and appears on the Navy List that and every subsequent year until 1939. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant on 5 April 1897 and was promoted Lieutenant on 20 December 1898 and Lieutenant-Commander on 20 December 1906. He was awarded the Royal Naval Reserve Decoration in 1915. He travelled very widely during his career, particularly to the West Indies. He died in autumn 1939. Sold with a group photograph of the officers S.M.S. Nürnberg, annotated as being taken at Zanzibar, and thus dated to March 1910 when the ship was on its way from Germany to join the German East Asia Fleet. The Nürnberg was sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914, all but seven of her crew of 322 being lost.
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Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1916, unnamed as issued; together with a circular silver Snuff Box, the lid engraved ‘Capt. E. J. Minster from W. E. J. Sept. 1901’, good very fine £100-£140 --- Edward James Minister was born at Cardigan, South Wales, in 1870. He qualified for the Merchant Marine on 28 August 1890 and appears on the Navy List that and every subsequent year until 1939. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant on 5 April 1897 and was promoted Lieutenant on 20 December 1898 and Lieutenant-Commander on 20 December 1906. He was awarded the Royal Naval Reserve Decoration in 1915. He travelled very widely during his career, particularly to the West Indies. He died in autumn 1939. Sold with a group photograph of the officers S.M.S. Nürnberg, annotated as being taken at Zanzibar, and thus dated to March 1910 when the ship was on its way from Germany to join the German East Asia Fleet. The Nürnberg was sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914, all but seven of her crew of 322 being lost.
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