Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Pair: Surgeon J. O. Goodridge, Royal Navy

China 1842 (Asst. Surgn., H.M.S. Starling); Arctic Discoveries 1818-55, unnamed as issued, suspension refitted, minor edge bruising, good very fine (2) £700-900

John Octavius Goodridge served as Assistant Surgeon aboard the Starling during the First China War and as Surgeon aboard the Herald, qualifying for the Arctic Discoveries Medal during 1848-50. He died at Blandford on 26 November 1865, aged 57 years.

Sold with a folder containing a quantity of research, including extracts from the ‘Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the years 1845-51’ in which Goodridge is several times mentioned.