The unique Boxer campaign medal for the relief of Pekin awarded to Mr William Whittall, War Correspondent for Reuter’s Agency

China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (W. Whittall, War Correspondent) the clasp is a contemporary tailor’s copy, good very fine £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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William Whittall represented Reuter’s Agency during the Boxer Rebellion. He is the only one of the ten war correspondents in China to receive a clasp to his medal. Nothing else is known of him.