Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class F. W. Clempson, Royal Navy, late Cape Garrison Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (722 Gnr., Cape G.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (722 Cape G.A.); 1914-15 Star (270947 Act. C.E.R.A.2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (270947 C.E.R.A.2, R.N.) first two with some contact marks, very fine and better (5) £160-200

Frederick Walter Clempson was born in Enfield, Middlesex on 21 November 1877. During the Boer War he served as a Gunner in the Cape Garrison Artillery. Employed as a Fitter & Turner he entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 2 March 1903 and was confirmed in that rank in October 1904. He was promoted to E.R.A. 3rd Class in June 1907 when on Roxburgh and E.R.A. 2nd Class in April 1910 when on Orontes. In the first years of the Great War he served on the battleships Dominion, October 1912-February 1915 and Hibernia, February 1915-October 1916, being advanced to E.R.A. 1st Class in April 1915; Acting C.E.R.A. 2nd Class in July 1915, and C.E.R.A. 2nd Class in July 1916. After serving on the destroyer Sarpedon, November 1916-October 1917, he was invalided on 12 December 1917 due to arterio sclerosis.

With copied service paper.