Orders, Decorations and Medals

China 1900, 2 clasps, Taku Forts, Relief of Pekin (T. J. Robb, 2 Yeo. Sigls. H.M.S. Alacrity) good very fine £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine collection of awards for the Boxer Rebellion 1900.

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42 medals with two clasps issued to this ship.

Thomas James Robb was born at Dover, Kent, on 25 April 1874, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Trincomalee on 25 April 1892. He served aboard Alacrity as a Yeoman Signaller 2nd Class from January 1899 to 17 December 1900. He was promoted to acting Signal Boatswain on 1 April 1903, confirmed 8 April 1904, and about that time changed his name to Gladstone. He served ashore at home during the Great War on signal duties at the signal schools of Vivid and Victory, service which qualified him for the British War Medal. Ending the war as a Chief Signal Boatswain, he died on 17 September 1945. Sold with copied service papers.