Auction Catalogue

16 December 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 715

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16 December 2003

Hammer Price:
£1,300

Six: Petty Officer A. H. White, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (125048 Lg. Smn., H.M.S. Terrible); China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Lg. Sea., H.M.S. Terrible); 1914-15 Star Trio (125048 P.O.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (P.O. 2Cl. H.M.S. Terrible) mounted as worn, naming worn in parts through contact wear on the earlier medals, these good fine, otherwise good very fine (6) £600-700

Ex. John Cooper collection, D.N.W. 4 April 2001.

Only 88 officers and other ranks of H.M.S.
Terrible received the combination of Q.S.A., Relief of Ladysmith and China 1900, Relief of Pekin. See article entitled Double Relief Medals to H.M.S. Terrible, by David Humphry, published Medal News, May 2002. Sold with copy service record.