Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Shipwright J. T. Austwick, Royal Navy

China 1900, no clasp (J. T. Austwick, Car. Mte., H.M.S. Goliath.); 1914-15 Star (128059. J. T. Austwick. Shpt. 1., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (128059 J. T. Austwick. Shpt. 2 R.N.), very fine (4) £220-£260

John Thomas Austwick was born on 25 June 1860 in Knottingsley, Yorkshire, and entered naval service on 3 July 1884, seeing service in H.M.S. Goliath from 27 March 1900 to 8 October 1903. Pensioned to shore at the end of 1904, he served in H.M.S. Sutlej, Pembroke II and Wildfire during the Great War.