Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Chief Engine Room Artificer W. T. Carr, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (C.E.R.A., H.M.S. Terrible), impressed naming; China 1900, 1 clasp, Taku Forts (Ch. E.R.A. 2Cl., H.M.S. Whiting); 1914-15 Star (141652 C.E.R.A.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (141652 C.E.R.A.1, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (Ch. E.R.A.2 Cl., H.M.S. Goliath) minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (6) £650-750

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for the Boxer Rebellion 1900 to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

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H.M.S. Whiting was a Destroyer of 360 tons, built by Palmer at Hebburn-on-Tyne and launched in August 1896. A total of 55 officers and other ranks of the ship were entitled to the China Medal with single clasp ‘Taku Forts’. Sold with riband bar.