Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Chief Gunner’s Mate J. W. Hatherly, Royal Navy, who was severely wounded in the operations in the Fatshan Creek on 1 June 1857

Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued,; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued,; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Josh. W. Hatherly, Chf. Gunrs. Mate H.M.S. Ocean, 20 Yrs.), very fine or better (3) £800-£1,200

Provenance: Previously recorded as a single Long Service Medal only, with the campaign medals added for display.

Joseph Wilmot Hatherly was born at Landport, Hampshire, on 1 September 1835, and joined the Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 12 July 1847, aboard H.M.S. Excellent. He next served aboard Trafalgar from August 1850, advancing to Boy 1 in May 1851, and to Able Seaman in March 1853. He next served in Pembroke from April to October 1855, including service in the Baltic (for which his medal was sent to Sampson in September 1858), and in the Crimea (with an annotation on the roll stating that he was issued with an officially engraved Crimea Medal). He served aboard Raleigh and Alligator, November 1856 to August 1857, and was severely wounded by a grape shot in the left shoulder when Captain of the Foretop of the 1st Cutter from Raleigh at the operations in the Fatshan Creek on 1 June 1857. He joined Sampson as Captain of the Forecastle in August 1857 and it is on the roll of this ship that his China medal and Canton clasp is confirmed as being sent to Edinburgh in August 1862. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 16 August 1870.