Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Able Seaman H. Endean, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (181829 Ord., H.M.S. Terrible); China 1900, no clasp (A.B., H.M.S. Terrible); 1914-15 Star (181829 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (181829 A.B., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (181829 A.B., H.M.S. Vulcan), the first two with contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine, the remainder very fine and better (6) £340-380

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

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273 one-clasp Queen’s South Africa Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Terrible, around 230 of them for “Natal”.

Harry Endean was born in Plymouth, Devon in May 1878 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in October 1894. Advanced to Ordinary Seaman in May 1896, he served in H.M.S. Terrible from March 1898 to October 1902, in which period he qualified for his Queen’s South Africa Medal for “Cape Colony”, when he was landed for special service at Durban, under Lieutenant Hughes-Onslow, R.N., and for his China Medal. He was advanced to Able Seaman towards the end of the same period and purchased his discharge ashore in May 1908, when he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve.

Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Endean served briefly in the battle cruiser New Zealand before taking up an appointment in Pembroke I in October of the same year. Here he remained employed until removing to the Vulcan in January 1916, the latter ‘torpedo vessel’ acting as a depot ship for submarines. He was similarly engaged at the end of hostilities and was demobilised in February 1919.