Five: Chief Petty Officer E. C. White, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Ladysmith (191331 Ord. H.M.S. Terrible) officially engraved naming; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (A.B. H.M.S. Terrible); British War and Victory Medals (191331 Act. C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (191331 P.O., H.M.S. Crescent); together with an erased 1914-15 Star, first two with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (6) £550-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers.

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Edmund Charles White was born in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire on 19 July 1881. He enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on St. Vincent on 10 December 1896 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in August 1897. Serving on Terrible, April 1898-October 1902, he was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in July 1899 and to Able Seaman in August 1900. Serving ashore in South Africa, he served in the relief of Ladysmith; then in China, he served in the relief of Pekin. He was promoted to Leading Seaman in November 1904 when on Bellona and to Petty Officer 2nd Class in September 1906 when on Goliath. Serving on the battleship Bellerophon he was advanced to Petty Officer 1st Class in September 1909. During the Great War he served on the armed merchant cruiser Montagua, December 1914-October 1916. Appointed Acting Chief Petty Officer in March 1918 when on Egmont, he was confirmed in that rank in May 1919. He then served on Rowan and Mallow before being discharged to a pension on 18 August 1921. White was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal on 27 July 1914. With copied service papers and other research.