Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Able Seaman W. B. Knight, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (159700 A.B. W. B. Knight, H.M.S. Terrible) officially engraved naming; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (W. B. Knight, A.B. H.M.S. Terrible) together with Borough of Portsmouth Tribute Medal, 27mm., silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1902, rev. impressed, ‘Naval Brigade / South Africa 1899-1900 / North China 1900’, good very fine (3) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell.

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William Benjamin Knight was born in Solihull, Warwickshire in February 1876 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in March 1891. Advanced to Able Seaman in October 1894, he went on to witness active service with H.M.S. Terrible in the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion, being landed in Natal and for the relief of Pekin operations. Transferring to the Royal Fleet Reserve in 1906, Knight was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 and served in the cruiser Europa until May 1915.