WW1 ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION HOWE BATTALION MEDAL GROUP & WW2 HOME GUARD SERVICE

Offered is a Gallipoli related service medal group to  Able Seaman G. A. Pennifold, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division.

Swing mounted, as worn, medals include: 1914 Star, with clasp, impressed named to SX2/ 200 G. A. PENNIFOLD, A.B. RNVR. HOWE BTTN RND; British War and Victory Medals, impressed named to S. 2-200 G. A. PENNIFOLD. PTR. 4. R.N.V.R.; Defence Medal; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar (loose on ribband), impressed named to 2/200 G. A. PENNIFOLD. A.B. R.N.V.R. SUSSEX DIV.

Medals come with some copied service record sheets, showing medal and service entitlement.

George Alfred Pennifold was a native of Brighton and was born in October 1891. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as Ordinary Seaman, 12^th May 1911. He was mobilised for service with the Royal Naval Division and joined Howe Battalion, 22 August 1914. Subsequent service included with H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth (battleship), December 1914 - August 1917, during which time she became the flagship for the preliminary naval operations for the Dardanelles campaign. Pennifold was awarded the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 4^th May 1920, and the Second Award Bar 3 April 1929. Rarely will you come across a set of medals with the 2nd award bar to the long service medal, especially to a man who served through the entirety of the First World War in the Royal Naval Division and Home Guard during the Second World War.