SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS
He received his L.S. & G.C. medal as a Commissioned Boatman on 17 March 1907. His Rate designation was altered to Petty Officer (Coast Guard) on 1 April 1910, and raised to Chief Petty Officer (Coast Guard) on 21 February 1911. He was promoted to Chief Officer (Coast Guard) on 5 March 1913, and served in this rank throughout World War I. He was retired on reaching the age limit (55 years) with the rank of Lieutenant R.N. on 6 April 1921.
He was awarded a bronze Medal and Diploma by the French Government in recognition of his services in assisting in the rescue of the French Schooner Espeigle stranded at Tolpsdow, Penswith, Cornwall on 14 October 1913. Sold with copied service papers and copied photographs of H.M.S. Brisk.
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50 ‘1891-2’ clasps to Widgeon. EAST AND WEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1891-2 (146897 H. Lake, Ord. Sea. H.M.S. Widgeon) good very fine £180-220
EAST AND WEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Brass River 1895 (G. Adams, Qd. Sign., H.M.S. Thrush) good very fine £250-300
George Adams was born in Lambeth, Surrey on 27 May 1874. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on H.M.S. Impregnable on 4 October 1889 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in October 1890. He was promoted to Signalman when on Boadicea in May 1892 and a Qualified Signalman when on Grafton in November 1894. Pensioned in February 1903, he returned to service as a Signalman based at Victory I during the Great War, August 1914-May 1919. With copied service paper.
157 EAST AND WEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (H. C. Goodson, Ord. H.M.S. Forte) nearly extremely fine £160-200
Henry Charles Goodson was born in North Kensington on 5 February 1879. From the Training Ship Arethusa he joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on Impregnable on 15 July 1894. He was promoted to Boy 1st Class when on Lion in March 1895. Goodson joined H.M.S. Forte in November 1895 and was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in February 1897 and Able Seaman in April 1898. He was advanced to Leading Seaman in January 1903 when on Majestic and Petty Officer 2nd Class in March 1905 when on Terrible. He was invalided from H.M.S. Good Hope in July 1905. With copied service paper.
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160 EAST AND WEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (A. McDonald, A.B., H.M.S. Theseus) good very fine £140-180
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY MEDAL 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (Tpr. H. L. K. Hughes, B.S.A. Police) some edge bruising, very fine
£180-220
HONG KONG PLAGUE 1894, silver issue (Private F. G. Aire, S.L.I.) fitted with matching silver suspension and brooch bars inscribed, ‘Plague of Hong Kong’, brooch bar lacking pin, minor edge bruising, good very fine
£1200-1500
The medal with its distinctive suspension and brooch bars is illustrated in The Whitewash Brigade, by J. J. Platt, M. E. Jone & A. K. Platt.
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INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Chitral 1895 (692 Sepoy Kharku 4th Kashmir Rifles) official correction, otherwise very fine £1200-1400
Garrison troops present at the defence of Chitral Fort: silver medals to 14 Sikhs (88); 4 Kashmir Rifles (300); Punyal and Gilgit Levies (100); bronze medals to camp followers (40).
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INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (1599 Pte. E. Hickmott, 1st Bn. Bedford Regt.) nearly extremely fine
£140-180
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902 (2), 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, bronze issue (Grass Cutter Ram Ditta, 13th Bl. Lcrs.) erasure to unit, claw tightened; another, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2, silver issue (3624 Sepoy Sahib Singh, 29th Pjb. Infy.) claw tightened, fine and better (2)
£120-160 INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2 (1162 Sowar Jit Ram, 5th Bl. Cavy.) nearly very fine £70-90
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