Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Belmont, Modder River (179172. A.B. J. Stewart. H.M.S. Powerful.) engraved naming, extremely fine £500-£700

James Stewart was born in Aglish, co. Waterford, on 31 January 1877 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 21 July 1893. He joined H.M.S. Powerful on 8 June 1897, and was promoted Able Seaman on 9 June 1898. He served in Powerful in South Africa during the Boer War, before transferring to H.M.S. Monarch on 16 March 1900, and died in hospital in Simonstown from enteric fever on 12 April 1900.