WW1 Naval Long Service Group of (4) Medals, Milward, Chief Yeoman Signals, HMS Adventure
Four: Chief Yeoman of Signals E. H. Milward, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (J.14806 E. H. Milward Sig. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.14806 E. H. Milward L.Sig. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J.14806 E. H. Milward. L.Sig. H.M.S. Adventure.)
Contact marks, polished, good fine and better.
Ernest Howard Milward, a Toymaker from Worcester, was born on 14 November 1895. Enlisting in the Royal Navy on 14 November 1913, his Great War service included service in H.M. Ships Suffolk and Blenheim. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 30 November 1928, and was promoted Chief Yeoman of Signals on 15 September 1935. Shore pensioned on 13 November 1935, he was recalled for Second War service on 24 September 1941, serving at home, ashore in H.M.S Cabbala, before being Released to Class A Reserve on 14 August 1945.
HMS Adventure - When the war began in August 1914, she was assigned to patrol the English Channel. In mid-1915 Adventure was transferred to Irish waters to serve as theflagship there. In early 1918, the ship escorted convoys to Gibraltar before being transferred to the Mediterranean at the end of the war. She returned home in mid-1919 and was paid off. Adventure was sold for scrap in early 1920.
