Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Able Seaman H. G. T. Clark, Royal Fleet Reserve, late Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (A.B., H.M.S. Racoon); 1914-15 Star (184113 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (184113 A.B., R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (184113 (CH. B. 1633) A.B., R.F.R.), together with his R.F.R. identity disc, good very fine and better (6) £180-200

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

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A total of 178 Queen’s South Africa Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Racoon, all but two of them without clasp.

Henry George Thomas Clark was born in Ramsgate, Kent in September 1879 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in May 1895. He subsequently served aboard H.M.S. Racoon from February 1898 to July 1901, which period witnessed his advancement to Able Seaman and active service off South Africa. He purchased his discharge ashore in November 1903, when he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve.

Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he initially served in the battleship Victorious, but thereafter appears to have been employed in the Auxiliary Patrol, mainly aboard the destroyer Rother. He was demobilised in February 1919.