Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 966

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£3,600

The Bateman Family Group:

Pair:
Staff Commander Francis William Bateman, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Navarino, Syria (Actg. Master); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, unnamed as issued, fitted with swivel-bar suspension and silver ribbon buckle

Pair: Paymaster Walter Drake Bateman, Royal Navy

China 1842 (Purser H.M.S. Dido); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued

Pair: Paymaster George Frederick Collingwood Bateman, Royal Navy

India General Service 1854-94, 1 clasp, Pegu (Paymr., “Spartan”); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued

Three: Paymaster William Henry Bateman, Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-55, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Paymaster, H.M.S. Curaçoa) contemporary engraved naming; Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class, silver, gold and enamels, the reverse named as before; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, named as before, together with companion set of three miniature medals, a few minor edge bruises, otherwise generally good very fine and better and a rare group (12)
£2500-3000

Francis William Bateman served as Master’s Assistant on board the Genoa 74 at the battle of Navarino in 1827. He was promoted to the rank of Master in 1837, and was employed until 1842 in the Carysfort 26, Captain Henry Byam Martin, under whom he was stationed in the Mediterranean and took part in the operations of 1840, on the coast of Syria, and bombardment of St Jean D’Acre. From November 1843 until December 1851, he was in command of the Nereus store depot, at Valparaiso, and from March 1855 until 1857, at Deptford, with his name on the books of Fisgard. He was promoted to Staff Commander on reserved half pay in June 1863.

Walter Drake Bateman served as Supernumerary Paymaster & Purser in Cornwallis at the capture of Chapoo and Woosung; and Purser of Dido in the Yang-tse-Kiang in 1842. He served as Purser of Nimrod co-operating with troops and the Indus flotilla against the Beloochee forces, and in the expedition against the piratical hordes of Borneo in 1846.

George Frederick Collingwood Bateman passed his examination for Paymaster in January 1838, and was promoted to that rank in February 1847. He was appointed in November 1844, as Clerk-in-Charge, to the Plover surveying vessel on the East India station; and was employed as Paymaster from December 1846 until 1850, in the Albatross on the coast of Africa and again in the East Indies. In June 1852 he was appointed to the Spartan on the East India station and saw service during the Burmese War. In February 1855 he was appointed to the Arrogant, in which he was present at the bombardment of Sweaborg, and, in December of the same year, to the Brunswick, employed on the Maediterranean, Nortyh American and West India stations.

William Henry Bateman passed his examination for Paymaster in February 1840, and was confirmed in that rank in January 1849. After service in the Acheron, Geyser, Virago, and Portland, he was appointed to the Curaçoa. In the latter ship, in which he continued until paid off in 1857, he served in the Black Sea, where he was present at the defence of Eupatoria and at the capture of Kinburn (Crimea Medals and 5th Class Medjidie).