SHELLING OF DARDANELLES WW1 BRITISH NAVY MEDAL GROUP TO STOKER GRIGGS GALLIPOLI

Description

Offered is an original set of 3 medals, as awarded to Acting Leading Stoker Griggs, who served in the Royal Navy and was aboard H.M.S. Cornwallis, when she was part of the naval expedition to bombard the Turkish defensive positions prior to the Gallipoli campaign in 1915.

1914/15 Star, impressed named K. 22807 W. T. GRIGGS. STO. 1. R.N. War Medal & Victory Medal, impressed named K. 22807 W. T. GRIGGS. ACT. L. STO. R.N. Medals court mounted for display.

William Thomas Griggs was born at Herne Bay on 26 June 1893 and joined the Royal Navy in June 1914. He subsequently served as a Stoker aboard H.M.S. Cornwallis from 10 December 1914 to 16 January 1917. Cornwallis was heavily involved during the Dardanelles Campaign, taking part in the bombardment of the Narrows Forts and supporting the landings at Morto Bay on 25 April 1915; from 18-20 December 1915, she covered the evacuation of Allied troops from Suvla Bay, and was the last large ship to leave the area. Griggs continued to serve throughout the war and was invalided with neurasthenia (shell shock) on 3 December 1919; sold with copied service record.