Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Commodore B. K. Boase, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr., R.N.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Ottoman Empire, Liyakat Medal, 25mm., gold, pierced for gilt ring and straight bar suspension, mounted for display; Netherlands, Order of Orange Nassau, Commander’s neck badge with swords, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, in van Wielik, The Hague case of issue; together with a ‘Jutland’ commemorative medal, by Spink, London, 23mm., silver, with ring suspension, generally good very fine (8) £550-650

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Groups with Foreign Awards.

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Order of Orange Nassau, Commander London Gazette 25 November 1947. ‘Captain, Royal Navy (Retired).’

Bernard Knightley Boase was born in Dundee on 13 September 1884. He entered the Royal Navy in May 1899 serving aboard the training ship Britannia and was appointed a Midshipman in September 1900. He was promoted to Sub Lieutenant in November 1903; Lieutenant in April 1906; Lieutenant-Commander in April 1914 and Commander in December 1918. He served as a Navigating Officer from 1905. Boase received the Turkish Liyakat Medal whilst serving as a Navigating Lieutenant aboard the Commander in Chief’s yacht Hussar, between 1907 and 1909. He served as Navigating Officer on the battleship Commonwealth, November 1913-February 1916 and then on the battlecruiser Inflexible, February 1916-September 1918, being present at the battle of Jutland. He retired from the Navy in May 1930 and was promoted to Captain (Retired) in November the same year. He was called up on the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, eventually becoming the Commodore and Principal Sea Transport Officer for the North West Ports. In this capacity he was responsible for numerous Dutch cargo and troop vessels which had escaped from the Netherlands, for which services he was awarded the Order of Orange Nassau.

Sold with the original warrants for both the Turkish and Dutch awards, together with the Statutes of the Dutch order. Also with copied service paper, gazette extracts and other research.