A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to the Royal Navy

Pair: Stoker 1st Class J. Martin, alias A. Crispin, H.M.S. Terrible, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (A. Crispin, Sto. H.M.S. Terrible.) small officially re-impressed naming; China 1900, no clasp (A. Crispin, Sto. H.M.S. Terrible.) large officially re-impressed naming, both medals officially re-impressed, edge nicks, good very fine (2) £160-£200

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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Approximately 538 no clasp Queen’s South Africa Medals awarded to H.M.S. Terrible.

Approximately 706 no clasp China Medals awarded to H.M.S. Terrible.

George Martin, alias Arthur Crispin, was born in Derby on 15 March 1874 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class under an alias on 26 August 1898. He joined H.M.S. Terrible on 23 June 1899, was promoted Stoker on 29 October 1899, and served in her during the Boer War and the Third China War. Advanced Stoker 1st Class, he was discharged, service no longer required, owing to generally poor record, on 18 December 1906, his period of service having regularly been interrupted with periods in the cells.

Sold with copied service record and medal roll extracts.