Orders, Decorations and Medals

China 1900, 1 clasp, Taku Forts (F. S. P. Ainger, Ord., H.M.S. Aurora) 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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Only 10 medals with the single Taku Forts clasp to this ship.

Frederick George Philip Ainger was born at Tynemouth, Northumberland, on 17 March 1879, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Northampton on 10 January 1897. He served aboard Aurora from February 1899 to April 1902, receiving promotion to Able Seaman in April 1901. He was ‘discharged dead’ from R.N. Hospital Plymouth on 29 March 1903 from ‘pulmonary tubercle’. Sold with copied record of service.