Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Petty Officer C. H. K. Lawrence, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (C. H. Lawrence, A.B. H.M.S. Boadicea.); 1914-15 Star (141532. C. H. K. Lawrence. C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (141532 C. H. K. Lawrence. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (C. H. K. Lawrence, P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Montague.) heavy contact marks between first and last, these very fine, the Great War trio better (5) £280-£320

Charles Henry King Lawrence was born in Portsmouth on 22 January 1871 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 1 June 1887. He served in the H.M.S. Boadicea, the Flagship of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, from 4 March 1889 to 24 April 1891, and landed with the Naval Brigade for the punitive expedition against the Sultan of Witu in October 1890. Advanced Petty Officer 1st Class on 13 February 1899, he joined H.M.S. Montague on 28 July 1903, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 3 February 1904. Advanced Chief Petty Officer on 1 October 1910, he was shore pensioned on 31 January 1911, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve at Devonport the following week.

Lawrence was recalled to the Service following the outbreak of the Great War, and served in the cruiser H.M.S. Talbot from 2 August 1914 to 13 November 1917, serving in Home Waters, at Gallipoli, and off the coast of East Africa. During the Gallipoli landings on 25 April 1915 Talbot was one of four cruisers that supported the battleship Goliath in supporting the landings on “Y” Beach. Lawrence spent the last year of the War serving in various shore based establishments, and was demobilised on 31 December 1918. He died in Plymouth in 1938.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.