Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry

A ‘Queen Victoria funeral’ R.V.M. pair awarded to Commissioned Gunner C. P. Bennett, M.B.E., Royal Navy, who died in December 1919Royal Victorian Medal, V.R., bronze (C. P. Bennett L.S. Feb: 2nd 1901.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Gnr. C. P. Bennett. R.N.) the first pitted and suspension bent on the second, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £100-£140---Charles Palmer Bennett was born at Weybridge, Surrey, on 23 December 1879, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 17 April 1895, a milk boy by trade. Specialising in gunnery, he was passed for Gunner in January 1908 and was commissioned as Acting Gunner on 7 December 1910, and confirmed in this rank on 6 December 1911. Awarded the M.B.E. in 1918, he died whilst serving in H.M.S. Furious on 26 December 1919, and is buried in Portsmouth (Milton) Cemetery.------For more information, additional images and to bid on this lot please go to the auctioneers website, www.dnw.co.uk