Six: Able Seaman J. J. Newton, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Boy 1st Cl., H.M.S. Terrible); China 1900, no clasp (Ord., H.M.S. Barfleur); 1914-15 Star (197802 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (197802 A.B., R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., Admiral’s bust (197802 DEV. B. 6459 A.B., R.F.R.), together with Borough of Portsmouth ‘North China Naval Brigade 1900’ Medallion, silver and enamel, enamel chipped on this last, otherwise generally very fine (7) £280-320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

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538 no-clasp Queen’s South Africa Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Terrible.

Joseph John Newton was born at Beer, Devon in April 1882 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1898. He subsequently qualified for his Queen’s South Africa and China Medals for his services in H.M.S. Terrible from September 1899 to May 1900, and in the Barfleur from the latter month to January 1902, in which period he was advanced to Able Seaman. He purchased his discharge ashore in April 1910, when he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve.

Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Newton was, more or less, continuously employed in Victory I until the end of the War, and was demobilised in June 1921.