Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1900, no clasp (W. Bain, Sto., H.M.S. Dido) nearly extremely fine £140-180

William Bain was born in Wick, Caithness on 19 July 1874. An Engine Driver by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class at Pembroke on 8 February 1898. He served on Dido, October 1898-February 1900 and April 1900-January 1902, being advanced to Stoker in February 1899. He was invalided from Pembroke on 4 July 1902.

With copied service paper and roll extract.