Description
A Great War, Battle of Jutland, Long Service Group of 4 awarded to Able Seman James Carroll who served aboard H.M.S. Conqueror at Jutland and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1926 aboard H.M.S. Valiant, comprising , 1914-15 Star, (J.7646 J. Carroll. A.B. R.N.), 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals, (J.7646 J. Carroll. A.B. R.N.), Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, GVR, (J.7646 J. Carroll. A.B. H.M.S. Valiant.), contemporarily mounted for wear, toned good.
On 31 May 1916 H.M.S. Conqueror, under the command of Captain Hugh Tothill, was the seventh ship from the head of the battle line after deployment. The ship may have had engine problems during the battle because she was having trouble maintaining 20 knots as a signal from Jellicoe at 17:17 instructed Thunderer to overtake Conqueror if she could not maintain speed. During the first stage of the general engagement, the ship fired three salvos from her main guns at one battleship at 18:31 without visible effect. She then shifted her fire to the crippled light cruiser SMS Wiesbaden, although the number of hits made, if any, is unknown. At 19:12, Conqueror fired her main guns at enemy destroyers without result and then again, at different destroyers at 19:25 with her aft turrets. This was the last time that the ship fired her guns during the battle, having expended a total of 57 twelve-inch shells (41 common pointed, capped and 16 armour-piercing, capped).
James Carroll a native of Liverpool joined the Royal Navy on a 12 year engagement on the 23rd of January 1911, he served aboard H.M.S. Conqueror from the 28th of January 1913 to the 31st of May 1918. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on the 28th of March 1926. He was discharged from the Royal Navy on the 30th of July 1945
Sold with copy service papers.
