Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (W. H. Fitch, Sto., H.M.S. Terpsichore.) large impressed naming, very fine £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to the Royal Navy.

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William Henry Fitch was born in London on 15 January 1874, and joined the Royal Navy on 2 February 1893. He served in H.M.S. Terpsichore from 6 February 1901 to 7 February 1905, and was advanced Stoker 1st Class on 1 July 1906. He died of septic poisoning in the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, on 5 January 1916, whilst still in service, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Plymouth (Ford Park) Cemetery.