Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1834-53 (J. H. Howard. Additl. Lieutenant.) bad surface corrosion to the reverse, suspension re-affixed, fine or better £400-£500

John Henry Howard was born in 1827 and joined the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet on 2 September 1840; Sub-Lieutenant, 13 April 1847; Lieutenant, 15 October 1847; Commander, 2 May 1857; Retired Captain, 2 May 1872. He served in the operations on the Coast of Syria in 1840 as a Volunteer 1st Class aboard H.M.S. Rodney (Syrian and Turkish Medals); also during the Kaffir War in 1852 as an additional Lieutenant aboard H.M.S. Castor. He was presented with a sword by George Augustus Frederick, King of the Mosquito Nation, when A.D.C. at his coronation at Belize, Honduras, 1845. Captain Howard died in 1925.