Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Lieutenant-Commander B. K. Boase, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr., R.N.) the Victory Medal officially re-impressed; Defence & War Medals; The Netherlands, Order of Orange Nassau, Military, 3rd class neck badge with swords, silver-gilt and enamels, slightly chipped in places, in its van Wielik case of issue; Turkey, Gold Medal of the Order of Merit, gold with gilt bar suspension, together with a small silver Jutland commemorative medal by Spink, generally good very fine (8) £400-450

Lieutenant-Commander Boase received the Turkish gold medal whilst serving as a Navigating Lieutenant aboard the Commander in Chief’s yacht Hussar, between 1907 and 1909. He was present at the battle of Jutland on board H.M.S. Inflexible, and retired from the Royal Navy in 1930. He was called up on the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, eventually becoming the Commodore and Principal Sea Transport Officer for the North West Ports. In this capacity he was responsible for numerous Dutch cargo and troop vessels which had escaped from Holland, and for those services Boase received the Order of Orange Nassau. Sold with the original warrants for both the Turkish and Dutch awards, together with the Statutes of the Dutch order.