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HMS AGINCOURT JUTLAND WW1 MEDALS A.B. FOOT 177148 26 YEARS SERVICE.

Offered is a group of 4 medals to Able Seaman T. Foot, Royal Navy, who served aboard H.M.S. Agincourt at the Battle of Jutland

1914 – 15 Star, impressed named 177148. T. FOOT. A.B. R.N.; British War and Victory Medals (1914 – 18), impressed named 177148 T. FOOT. A.B. R.N. Roya; Navy Long Service and Good Condict Medal (G.V.), impressed named 177148 THOMAS FOOT. A.B. H.M.S. EXCELLENT. Court mounted for display and comes with copies of service record and medal rolls.

Thomas Foot was born on the 21/7/1877, at Preston Dorset. A labourer by trade he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2^nd Class 9/9/1893. He served on a variety of H.M. ship and shore bases including: Boscawen, Alexandria, Ramillies, Victory I, Victory II, Excellent, Prince George, London, Sapphire,  Hecla, Euryalus, Hampshire, Roxburgh, Black Prince (Sunk at Jutland).

During WW1 he served aboard H.M.S. Agincourt (Dreadnought) 17/8/1914 – 26/2/1919 and demobilised to shore after 26 years service.

Battle of Jutland

The Agincourt was part of the 1st Battle Squadron, Sixth Division. During the battle it deploy from column into a single line based on the port division, each ship turning 90° in succession. This turn made the Sixth Division the closest ships in the Grand Fleet to the battleships of the High Seas Fleet, and they fired on each ship as they made their turn to port. This concentration of fire later became known as “Windy Corner” to the British, as the ships were drenched by German shell splashes although none were hit.

She fired on a German battlecruiser with her main guns. Shortly afterwards her six-inch guns followed suit as German destroyers made torpedo attacks on the British battleships to cover the turn to the south of the High Seas Fleet. Agincourt successfully evaded two torpedoes, she engaged a Kaiser-class battleship without result before it was lost in the smoke and haze. Agincourt fired 144 twelve-inch shells and 111 six-inch shells during the battle, although she is not known to have hit anything.

Post war he was administered by Victory XI but was removed from the reserve list 31/12/1921 on the reduction of the navy. He died in Weymouth December 1936.

Awarded LS & GC Medal 29/6/1915.