Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1900, no clasp (S. Dale. Pte. R.M., H.M.S. Plover.) name of ship partially officially corrected, small dig to obverse field, nearly very fine £140-£180

Samuel Dale was born at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on 30 May 1875, and joined the Royal Marines at Manchester on 30 June 1893. He served aboard the Composite Screw Gunboat H.M.S. Plover from 2 August 1898 to 22 July 1901, and was present at the capture of a ‘piratical junk’ off the Yalu River during the Boxer Rebellion. He served in a variety of ships during his careers, including in H.M.S. Broke from 22 August 1916 to 4 August 1918, and was present during the action off Dover on 21 April 1917, when H.M.S. Broke, commanded by Commander E. R. G. R. Evans (who had been Captain R. F. Scott’s Second-in-Command during the latter’s famous Antarctic expedition) engaged German ships that were shelling Dover, and rammed and sank a German destroyer.

Dale was finally demobilised on 19 February 1919, having spent well over 150 days during the Great War in detention or in the cells.

Approximately 74 medals, all without clasp, awarded to H.M.S. Plover.

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