Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Able Seaman James Clark, Royal Navy, later Police Sergeant, Metropolitan Police,

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (J. Clark. A.B. H.M.S. “Active”); Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (PC, J. Clark. T.A. Div:) lightly polished, otherwise very fine (2) £800-£1,000

James Clark was born at Shadwell, Middlesex, on 26 December 1857, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Fisgard on 14 April 1874. He served aboard H.M.S. Active from 19 April 1877 as an Ordinary Seaman, advancing to Able Seaman in December 1877, and was present with the Naval Brigade landed from Active in South Africa during the Kaffir War of 1877-78 and the Zulu War of 1879. He left Active on 25 October 1879 to join Excellent until 1 February 1880 when he joined the Naval Barracks at Portsmouth until he was shore invalided on 21 April 1880. He joined the Metropolitan Police at Wapping on 27 December 1881, serving with the Thames Division until 31 December 1906, when he resigned to Pension. Sold with copied record of service.