Offered is a 1914 – 15 Star, impressed named K.18836. E.HURRELL. STO.1. R.N.; British War and Victory Medals (1914 – 18) impressed named K.18836. E. HURRELL. ACT S.P.O. R.N.; 1939 – 45 Star, Africa Star, Defence and War Medals (1939 -45) WW2 medals un named as issued, Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (G.V.) impressed named K.18836. E. HURRELL. S.P.O. H.M.S. TIVERTON. Court mounted for display, comes with copies of service papers, medal rolls and 1939 census.
Chief Stoker Petty Officer Evelyn Hurrell was born on the 8/12/1894 at Kingsbridge, Devon. He was working as a farm labourer when he enlisted as a Stoker 2nd Class into the Royal Navy 11/4/1913. Pre-war he served on a variety of H.M. ships and bases including: Vivid II and Ajax.
WW1 service: H.M.S. Ajax (King George V-class dreadnought) 16/10/1913 – 10/3/1919. She was present at the Battle of Jutland and briefly engaged the German scouting battle cruisers.
Post war he continued to serve aboard Vivid II, Colossus, Columbine, Defiance, Cairo, Tiverton, Viceroy, Egmont (Malta), Queen Elizebeth, Eagle, Malaya finishing at Drake II and shore pensioned 10/4/1935.
The 1939 census records him as living at Balland Farm, Devon working as a farm labourer. Mobilised for the Munich crisis 28/9/38 - 28/10/38. Recalled for WW2, he served at H.M.S. Rooke (boom defence central depot at Rosyth) 10/8/40 – 15/8/40. H.M.T. Phylissia (requisitioned trawler, boom defence vessel) 15/8/1940 - ?
The WW2 service records are not as detailed as the WW1 records and are not complete. It would appear that he served on the Phylissia at H.M.S Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) 1/10/1941 – ?. At some Stage he served in the Mediterranean or on the north east coast of Africa.
Promoted to Chief Stoker Petty Officer 4/2/1941. Awarded L.S. & G.C. Medal June 1928. It is known that he discharged 23/8/1945 from the Drake (accommodation ship for the stoker training section at Devonport). He died in September 1984 at Hampshire.
