Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Lt. E. B. Wallace, R.N., H.M.S. Amethyst, 73-74), good very fine £280-£320

Edmund Barling Wallace was the second son of the Reverend William Wallace, Rector of Thorpe Abbots and entered naval service as a Cadet in H.M.S. Britannia in March 1861. Commissioned a Sub-Lieutenant on 21 December 1867, he served in H.M.S. Amethyst, having been promoted Lieutenant, from July 1873 to May 1874, seeing service in operations in the Ashantee. He was accidentally killed on board H.M.S. Minatour, when a spar fell from aloft, on 31 December 1876, aged 23, and is commemorated on a plaque in his father’s parish church.