Orders, Decorations and Medals

China 1900, no clasp (H. Woolley, P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Woodcock) very fine £160-180

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

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44 medals issued to this ship, all without clasp. The recipients include a locally recruited Pilot and 13 Chinese crewmen.

Henry Woolley was born at Aston on Trent, Derbyshire, on 2 November 1869, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Impregnable on 25 November 1884. He served aboard the river gunboat Woodcock from October 1899 to September 1900. Petty Officer Woolley died suddenly of heart failure on 6 December 1903. Sold with copied record of service.