Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Chief Stoker W. G. Griffiths, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (W. G. Griffiths. Sto., H.M.S. Woodlark); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (W. G. Griffiths, Stoker, H.M.S. Woodlark); China 1900, 2 clasps, Taku Forts, Relief of Pekin (W. G. Griffiths, Act. Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Alacrity); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (W. G. Griffiths, Stoker, H.M.S. Victory); British War Medal 1914-20 (125218 W. G. Griffiths. Ch. Sto., R.N.) mounted as worn in order listed, some edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and better (5) £1200-1500

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.

William George Griffiths was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 30 September 1864. He entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class, aboard H.M.S. Asia, on 13 November 1883. He was promoted to Stoker in June 1884 when in Woodlark; Leading Stoker 2nd Class in September 1896 and Leading Stoker 1st Class in April 1898, when in Royal Sovereign. Griffiths joined Alacrity in January 1899 and attained the rank of Chief Stoker aboard her in July 1901. Pensioned ashore in July 1903, he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve at Portsmouth in November that year. With the onset of war, he served in Victory II, Hermione and Magpie and was demobilized in 1919. Sold with copied service papers and with contemporary riband bar, this with ribbon for Khedive‘s Star but not the War Medal.