The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals

Five: Stoker 1st Class T. G. Lloyd, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (Sto., H.M.S. Philomel); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Sto., H.M.S. Philomel); 1914-15 Star (170633 Sto. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (170633 Sto. 1, R.N.), attempted erasure of ‘Sto.’ on all but the fourth, otherwise generally good very fine (5) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

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A total of 230 Queen’s South Africa Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Philomel, 152 of them without clasp.

Thomas George Lloyd was born in Monkton, Pembrokeshire in September 1873 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in November 1892. With the exception of several months ashore in the U.K. in 1898, he subsequently served in H.M.S. Philomel from December 1894 to March 1902, in which period he qualified for his East and West Africa and Queen’s South Africa Medals. Then, having come ashore ‘time expired’ in December 1904, and enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve, he rejoined the regular service in December 1905.

By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Lloyd was serving as a Stoker 1st Class in the Leander, in which cruiser he remained employed until removing to the destoyer Locust in July 1917. His final wartime appointment was in the P-17 from December of the latter year, and he was demobilised in December 1919.