Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Musician F. Strickland, Royal Marines

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Bandsn., H.M.S. Doris); 1914-15 Star (R.M.B. 395 Mus.); British War Medal 1914-20 (R.M.B. 395 Mus.), the first with edge bruising and the last with slack suspension, about very fine or better (3) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Frederick Strickland was born at St. Peter’s, Brighton in March 1878 and originally entered the Royal Navy as a Band Boy in March 1894. Subsequently present aboard H.M.S. Doris off South Africa during the Boer War, he transferred to the newly established Royal Marine Band in May 1904 and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in January 1913. During the Great War Strickland served in the armoured cruiser Cumberland from August 1914 until October 1916 - a period that witnessed her commission off West Africa during the Cameroon Expedition - when he came ashore to take up an appointment at the R.N. School of Music. Demobilised in March 1919, he died in April 1948, aged 70 years.