Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private G. Whiteway, Royal Marines

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued, 2nd clasp loose on riband; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (George Whiteway R.M., H.M.S. ‘Iris’); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, naming erased, fitted with a Crimea-style suspension, minor edge bruising, and the edge of the last plugged at 6 o’clock, nearly very fine or better (3) £500-£700

Approximately 72 New Zealand Medals (10 to R.N. officers, 49 to R.N. ratings, 1 to R.M. Officer, and 12 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) issued to H.M.S. Iris.

George Whiteway was born in Totnes, Devon, and attested for the Plymouth Division Royal Marines at Stonehouse, in December 1843. He served aboard H.M.S. Vanguard from 11 February 1845 to 17 May 1845 and again from 5 June 1845 to 14 November 1846; H.M.S. Birkenhead from 31 July 1848 to 2 February 1849; H.M.S. Queen from 26 January 1849 to 2 July 1852; H.M.S. Arethusa and the Royal Marine Battalion in the Crimea from 5 June 1853 to 8 December 1855; H.M.S. Cambridge from 9 September 1856 to 8 January 1857; H.M.S. Iris from 11 March 1857 to 3 August 1861; and H.M.S. Indus from 17 September 1864 to 29 September 1865. He served with the 39th Company, and ‘served in the Battn. in Crimea in 1854 & 1855 including the battle of Balaklava. Served in New Zealand... 1861... including the action of Taranaki.’ (Service Papers refer).

Whiteway was discharged to pension from 39th Company, Plymouth Division Royal Marines on 12 January 1866, having served 22 years and 33 days with the Corps, of which 13 years and 286 days were afloat and 8 years and 112 days were ashore.

Sold with copied service papers.