Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Private C. B. Scott, Royal Marines

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Pte., R.M., H.M.S. Turquoise); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (Pte., R.M., H.M.S. Turquoise); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Pte., No. 1566 Ch., R.M.L.I.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, minor contact wear, generally good very fine (4) £400-450

Charles Baker Scott was born in Southport, Lancashire in January 1861 and joined the Royal Marines at Liverpool in April 1879. Assigned to the 5th Company, R.M.L.I., Chatham Division in April 1880, he served aboard the corvette H.M.S. Turquoise from May 1884 to November 1887, in which period he qualified for his Egypt Medal whilst engaged at Suakin 27-30 July 1884, and his India General Service Medal for the Burma operations of 1885-87, when he served as a member of the 1st Naval Brigade. During the course of the latter operations, Turquoise’s men destroyed a battery of 11 guns near Pagun and a fortified camp at Mingyan, while in 1887, during the course of an anti-slavery patrol off East Africa, her pinnace fought a hotly contested action with an Arab dhow - fierce hand to hand fighting ensued on the arrival of boarding party. Scott, who was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1890, was invalided from the service in June of the following year.