Auction Catalogue

30 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 589

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£680

Japan, Red Ribbon Merit Merit Medal, with silver clasp engraved in Japanese letters, medal reverse inscribed, ‘A. J. Campbell’, 30mm., silver, in lacquer case of issue, extremely fine £300-400

Captain A. J. Campbell of the steamer Dunbar, belonging to Messrs. Henderson & McIntosh, was awarded the Japanese Red Ribbon Merit Medal in recognition of his humane actions in rescuing and giving assistance to Japanese refugees from the transport Sado Maru which was attacked and sunk by a Russian warship in the Genkai Sea on 16 June 1904. A scarce Russo-Japanese War award - one of 25 to a British subject.

With a letter to Captain Campbell from the Japanese Legation, London, informing him of the award; a copy of the letter; two envelopes, one addressed to ‘A. J. Campbell Esq., Captain of the “Dunbar”, c/o Dunedin Steamship Company, 41 Constitution Street, Leith, Scotland’; a letter of thanks from one of the Japanese citizens rescued by Campbell; with several related newspaper cuttings. With some copied research.