RNVR OFFICER* WW1 BRITISH NAVY MEDAL PAIR LIEUTENANT STAFFORD J HOWELLS ML96

Offered is a an original pair of medals, as awarded to Lieutenant S. J. Howells, who served as the commander of Motor Launches 96 & 385 during the First World War.

Medals include the following awards: War Medal & Victory Medal, both impressed named to rims LIEUT. S. J. HOWELLS. R.N.V.R.

Medals come with copied papers & basic research, as well as original flattened award card box.

Stafford J Howells enlisted for service 3/1/1916, served Motor Boat 20 25/3/1916, command of ML96 3/1/1917, Command ML Capt. Lay 28/11/1917, HMS Vivid for ML 385 14/2/1919. Discharged 23/3/1919.

Although small by naval standards, it was larger than the preceding Coastal Motor Boats of 40 and 55 ft length. The first motor launches entered service in the First World War. These were 580 80-foot-long (24 m) vessels built by the US Elco company for the Admiralty, receiving the designations ML-1 to ML-580. They served between 1916 and the end of the war with the Royal Navy defending the British coast from German submarines.