Orders, Decorations and Medals

Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., Royal Navy
Riband bar, on buckram, in four strips, bearing the ribbons: Order of the Bath; Order of St. Michael & St. George; Royal Victorian Order; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19; France, Legion of Honour; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-18; U.S.A., Distinguished Service Medal (Navy); Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus; Japan, War Medal 1904-05; Japan, Order of the Rising Sun

Together with an Order of the Bath, full sash; Japan, Order of the Rising Sun, evening sash; Order of St. Michael & St. George, neck cravat; and a length (116mm.) of U.S.A. Distinguished Service Medal (Navy) ribbon, good condition (lot) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Ribbons from the Collection of the late Judge Henry Pownall.

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William Christopher Pakenham was born in 1861, the second son of Rear-Admiral Hon. Thomas Alexander Pakenham, R.N. He entered the Royal Navy in 1874, attained the rank of Captain in 1903 and was promoted to Vice-Admiral in 1918 and Admiral in 1922. He was Naval Attache to Japan and China, 1904-06 - at which time he received the Order of the Rising Sun, and was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, 1911-13. During the Great War he commanded the 3rd Cruiser Squadron, 1913-17 and was the Rear-Admiral commanding the Battle Cruiser Fleet, 1917-19. For his wartime services he was awarded the K.C.B. (1916); K.C.V.O. (1917); and K.C.M.G. (1919). Post-war he was President of the R.M. College, Greenwich, 1919-20; C-in-C. of the North American and West Indies Station, 1920-22. Pakenham retired from the Royal Navy in 1926, having been promoted in the Order of the Bath, to G.C.B. in 1925. Appointed Bath King of Arms, 1930-33. Admiral Sir William Pakenham died in July 1933.

With copied research and certified provenance of the riband bar and ribbon. His insignia was sold in Christies, 20 November 1984.