Auction Catalogue

10 & 11 May 2017

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 100

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10 May 2017

Hammer Price:
£650

Three: Private G. Whiteway, Royal Marines

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued, rivets missing, therefore 2nd clasp loose; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (George Whiteway R.M., H.M.S. ‘Iris’); Turkish Crimea 1855, naming erased, suspension re-affixed and plugged at 6 o’clock on last, minor edge bruising, nearly very fine or better (3)
£500-600

Approximately 72 medals (10 to R.N. officers, 49 to R.N. ratings, 1 to R.M. Officer, and 12 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) issued to H.M.S. Iris.

George Whiteway was born in Totnes, Devon, and attested for the Plymouth Division Royal Marines at Stonehouse, in December 1843. He served with the 39th Company, and ‘served in the Battn. in Crimea in 1854 & 1855 including the battle of Balaklava. Served in New Zealand... 1861... including the action of Taranaki.’ (Service Papers refer)

Whiteway was discharged 12 January 1865, having served 22 years and 33 days with the Corps.