Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (W. H. Field, A.B., H.M.S. Fox.) traces of brooch mounting, otherwise good very fine £80-£120

William Harry Field was born in Portsea, Hampshire, on 12 December 1883, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 3 November 1900. He joined H.M.S. Fox on 10 September 1901, and remained in her until 25 November 1904, being advanced to Able Seaman on 30 October 1902. He was discharged dead on 24 April 1905 in the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, suffering from mastoid disease.

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