Auction Catalogue

21 May 2020

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 188

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21 May 2020

Hammer Price:
£850

Five: Petty Officer C. F. Davis, Royal Navy

China 1900, 1 clasp, Taku Forts (C. F. Davis, Ord, H.M.S. Barfleur); 1914-15 Star (188400 C. F. Davis, L.S. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (188400 C. F. Davis. P.O. R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (188400 (Ch. B. 6830) C. F. Davis. P.O. R.F.R.) nearly very fine (5) £500-£700

Only 22 medals with the single Taku Forts clasp to this ship.

Charles Frederick Davis was born in Hounslow, Middlesex, on 27 August 1880, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 9 April 1896. He served in H.M.S. Barfleur from October 1898 to December 1900. He joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on 27 August 1910 and was discharged in June 1919.

Sold with copied record of service.