Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Petty Officer A. E. Ingham, Royal Navy

China 1900, no clasp (A. E. Ingham, Ord., H.M.S. Pique); 1914-15 Star (196286 A. E. Ingham, P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (196286 A. E. Ingham, P.O. R.N.) the War Medal officially re-impressed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (196286 A. E. Ingham, Ldg. Sean. H.M.S. Defiance); Royal Navy Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., Admiral’s bust (196286 A. E. Ingham, P.O. “Vanoc” Minelaying 1, July - 11, Nov. 1918) nearly extremely fine £400-450

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

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289 medals issued to this ship, all without clasp.

M.S.M. London Gazette 24 March 1919.

Alfred Edwin Ingham was born at Stoke Damerel, Devon, on 26 April 1880, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Northampton on 28 October 1897. He served aboard Pique on the China Station from February 1900 to August 1903, during which period he advanced in rate to become an Able Seaman. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in June 1913 and served throughout the Great War as a Petty Officer, including service aboard H.M.S. Vanoc from August 1917 to October 1919. Pensioned in May 1920, he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve in December 1920. Sold with copied record of service.