Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (C. Newman Stoker, H.M.S. Fearless) good very fine £100-140

Charles Newman was born at Crookhaven, Co. Cork, on 25 July 1874, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 28 August 1894. Promoted Stoker 1st Class on 2 July 1896, he served in H.M.S. Fearless from 17 September 1898 to 8 November 1900, and was present during operations in the Boer War. His final posting was to the torpedo gunboat H.M.S. Skipjack, prior to his being invalided out of the service on 19 March 1906.