Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Leading Seaman J. Keating, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Ord., H.M.S. Monarch); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Aro 1901-1902 (A.B., H.M.S. Thrush); 1914-15 Star (200936 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (L.S., R.N.); Naval L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (200936 Boatman, H.M. Coast Guard) contact marks to the first two but generally very fine or better and rare (6) £500-600

Only 46 clasps for Aro issued to the Royal Navy, all to Thrush, although a further 29 clasps were issued to the Southern Nigeria Gunboat Jackdaw.