Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Petty Officer J. Murphy, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (175548 A.B. H.M.S. Terrible) officially engraved naming; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (A.B. H.M.S. Terrible) copy clasp, not entitled; 1914-15 Star trio (175548 C.P.O. R.N.) mounted as worn with China medal taking precedence, contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (5) £400-450

Served in South Africa with Lieutenant Wilde’s unit of two 12-pounder guns as a member of the crew of No. 1 gun, with Petty Officer Metcalfe as Captain of Gun.