Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Electrical Artificer 1st Class W. T. Child, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Electrician 4th Cl., H.M.S. Fox); 1914-15 Star (345649 E.A. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (345649 C.E.A. 2, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (345649 Ch. Elec. Art. 2 Cl., H.M.S. Iron Duke), the first with re-riveted suspension claw, contact marks, otherwise generally about very fine (5) £160-180

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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William Thomas Child was born at Stratford, Essex in July 1879 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Electrician 4th Class in September 1902. He subsequently witnessed active service aboard H.M.S. Fox in the Somaliland operations of 1902-04, and aboard the battleship Iron Duke from August 1914 until the end of hostilities, including the Battle of Jutland. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in October 1917, he was pensioned ashore as a Chief Electrical Artificer 1st Class in September 1924.