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*ROYAL YACHT* 1914-16 WW1 BRITISH NAVY LONG SERVICE MEDALS 165959 SPO J E BOUND

Offered is a British War and Victory Medals (1914 – 18), impressed named 165959 J.E. BOUND. S.P.O. R.N., Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (E.VII.R.), impressed named 165959 J.E. BOUND. STO. PO. 1CL. H.M.S. VERNON. Court mounted for display and comes with copy of service record and medal roll.

Note: This is his full medal entitlement.

Stoker Petty Officer John Edmon Bound was born on 6/8/1872 at Dipton, Southampton. A labourer by trade he enlisted into the Royal Navy 24/2/1892 as a Stoker 2^nd Class. He served on a variety of H.M. ship and shore establishments including: Victory II, Alacrity (Surprise class cruiser), Grafton (Edgar class cruiser) China Station, Victory I & II (accounts base for small ships), Duke of Wellington, Argonaut (Diadem-class of protected cruiser) China Station, Firequeen (special service steam yacht), Prince George (Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship), Cochrane (Duke of Edinburgh-class armoured cruiser), Excellent (shore base), Venus (Eclipse-class protected cruiser), Woolwich (Destroyer depot ship), Vernon (Torpedo school) and discharged to a pension 14/3/1914.

Recalled for WW1 he served on H.M.Yacht Victoria and Albert (which was the royal yacht), 2/8/1914 – 31/5/1916. Victory II (accounts base for small ships) 1/5/1916 – 9/1/1917. Attentive (shore base for the Dover Patrol), 10/1/1917 – 4/3/1919, when he was demobilised after 27 years.

He died in Portsmouth in December 1929.

Promoted to Stoker Petty Officer 1/7/1906.