WW1 MEDAL TRIO ROYAL NAVAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY SCARRATT NGSM PERSIAN GULF

Description

Offered is an original medal group, as awarded to Private G Scarratt, Royal Marien Light Infantry, who served in the Persian Gulf just prior to and an armed merchantman and seaplane tender during the First World War.

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914, impressed named PLY. 13906 PTE. G. H. SCARRATT. R.M.L.I., H.M.S. Fox.; British War and Victory Medals impressed named PLY. 13906 PTE. G. H. SCARRATT. R.M.L.I. Medals come with their individual medal ribbons.

In H.M.S. Fox Scarratt saw extensive service in the Persian Gulf, and afterwards participated in the support operations of the Indian Army landings at Tanga, East Africe, in November 1914, and in the subsequent hunt for the Konigsburg, in concert with H.M.S. Goliath. During the war he also served afloat in H.M.S. Sutlej, January 1916 to August 1917, and in H.M.S. Riviera, armed merchantman and seaplane tender on the Dover Patrol from February 1918. Also entitled to 1914-15 Star. Sold with copied record of service.