Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (PO.10092. Pte. W. Bacon, R.M.L.I., H.M.S. Karanja.) very fine and rare £140-£180

29 clasps issued European recipients on the armed launch H.M.S. Karanja, including 7 to R.M.L.I.

Walter Bacon was born in the Parish of St Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk, on 12 August 1879, and joined the Royal Marines as a Private at the Recruit Depot, Deal, on 10 December 1898. He was assigned to the Portsmouth Division on 5 October 1899 and thereafter saw much service afloat in various battleships and other vessels of the fleet. He served for most of the year in 1910 aboard the armed launch H.M.S. Karanja, engaged in anti gun running operations in the Persian Gulf. He was discharged on 11 January 1911, having completed his period of service of 12 years.