Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.B., C.B.E. group of three awarded to Captain C. R. Acklom, Royal Navy
The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Civil) silver-gilt breast badge in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 1st type neck badge in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (Midn., H.M.S. Boadicea) in its original card box of issue, this with some damage, otherwise extremely fine (3)

Cecil Ryther Acklom was born in 1872 and entered the Royal Navy in July 1885. He was Midshipman of Boadicea (Flag) and served in the Naval Brigade under the command of Vice-Admiral Hon. E. R. Fremantle, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, for the punitive expedition against the Sultan of Witu, in East Africa, October 1890. He was promoted Lieutenant, with four firsts, in April 1893, and specialized in Torpedoes, becoming Assistant Superintendent of the Royal Gun Factory at Woolwich, 1899-1910. From 1910 until the end of the Great War, Acklom was Superintendent of the Royal Navy Torpedo Factory at Greenock. He was awarded the C.B. on King George’s Birthday, 22 June, 1914, and the C.B.E. in 1919.