A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy

Four: Carpenter J. C. Burt, Royal Navy, who died in the explosion aboard H.M.S. Bulwark, 26 November 1914

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Act. Carpr., R.N., H.M.S. Gibraltar) large impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (Carp., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Carpr., R.N.) good very fine and better (4) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy.

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James Cooper Burt was born in Littlehampton, Sussex on 3 November 1868. A Shipwright by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Shipwright on 23 September 1891 and was advanced to Leading Shipwright in April 1894. He was promoted to Acting Carpenter in January 1902 and confirmed in that rank in November. From 23 May 1914 he served in the old battleship Bulwark. He was killed in the internal explosion which destroyed the ship whilst at anchor in the Medway near Sheerness on 26 November 1914. He was the husband of Matilda Burt of 133 St. Augustine Road, Southsea, Portsmouth; his name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Sold with copied service papers.