Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (F. C. Randall, A.B. H.M.S. Terrible) contact marks and edge nicks, otherwise nearly very fine £200-£240

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004.

F. C. Randall also served in South Africa in H.M.S. Terrible’s Naval Brigade with Lieutenant Ogilvey’s 12-pounder Battery of four guns, as a member of No. 1 gun’s crew under Petty Officer Venness as Captain of Gun (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Tugela Heights and Relief of Ladysmith). The rolls note that he was issued with duplicates of both medals.