Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Stoker E. Daniels, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (E. Daniels, Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Terrible); China 1900 (E. Daniels, Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Terrible.) suspension claw re-pinned; British War 1914-20 (136534 E. Daniels. Ch. Sto. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Edwin Daniels, Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Terrible.) mounted for display, light contact marks overall, very fine (4) £360-£400

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004 (L.S. & G.C. only)

Edwin Daniels was born in Storrington, Brighton, in July 1864. He joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in February 1886. Daniels advanced to Chief Stoker in March 1897, and subsequent service included with H.M.S. Terrible, March 1898 - February 1902, and at H.M.S. Victory, February 1908 - September 1914. He was ‘Shore Pensioned’, 25 September 1914 (entitled to British War Medal only).