Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin River 1894 (C. H. Coldrick, Stoker, H.M.S. Alecto.) edge bruising, good very fine £200-£240

Approximately 44 Benin River 1894 clasps awarded to H.M.S. Alecto.

Charles Henry Coldrick was born in Birmingham on 12 December 1869, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 29 January 1885. Advanced Able Seaman on 1 November 1889, he was re-rated as Stoker in H.M.S. Daphne on 1 July 1891, and transferred to H.M.S. Alecto on 20 March 1894, serving in her during the Benin River Expedition of August to September 1894, and remaining in her until 18 March 1895. His Naval career was punctuated by several periods in the cells, and he was dismissed from the service as objectionable on 2 February 1896, his conduct noted as Indifferent.