Campaign Groups and Pairs 237
Three: Commissioned Boatman H. Sobey, H.M. Coastguard, late Leading Seaman, Royal Navy
South Africa 1834-53 (H. Sobeg [sic]. Ordinary.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Henry. Sobey. Ordy. “Styx”); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Henry Sobey. Comd. Boatn. H.M. Coast Guard) impressed naming, good very fine (3)
£600-£800
Henry Sobey was born in Tamerton Foliot, Devon in August 1832. He served in the 6 gun steam sloop Styx from 3 April 1851 to 9 April 1856, initially at the Cape of Good Hope during the Kaffir War of 1850-53 under Commander William King Hall, thus qualifying for the South Africa 1834-53 medal and latterly in the East Indies where his service qualified him for the India General Service Medal. Gordon states 136 South Africa 1834-53 medals and 153 India General Service (Pegu) medals were issued to H.M.S. Styx.
Sobey next saw service aboard Centurion from 19 May 1856 to 7 December 1859 and on 20 January 1860 he volunteered in the rate of Leading Seaman for a further 10 years service remaining aboard Centurion initially. On 20 January 1870, while in the rate of Boatman, H.M. Coast Guard (borne on the books of the District Ship ‘Hector’), he engaged to serve a further period of 10 years to complete time for Pension provided his services should be so required. He received his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal as a Commissioned Boatman and then was finally pensioned ashore in August 1879. He is further recorded as having served aboard the Merchant Ship, Nubian, in 1881.
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Family Group:
Pair: Ordinary Seaman W. Ocock, Royal Navy South Africa 1834-53 (W. Ocock, Ordinary.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Wm. Ocock. Ordy. “Hermes”) heavy contact marks, therefore fine
Victory Medal 1914-19 (T2-13848 Dvr. G. E. Ocock, A.S.C,.) very fine (3) £400-£500
William Ocock was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, on 27 March 1826, and entered the Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. Camperdown on 24 January 1841. on 12 January 1850. He was advanced to Ordinary Seaman in April 1844 and subsequently served aboard Queen, Trafalgar, and Ocean, in the last ship as Armourer for 9 months, then Leading Seaman for 6 months before reverting to Stoker, in which rate he entered Hermes on 12 January 1850. He earned both his medals in Hermes, being advanced to Ordinary Seaman in June 1851 and back to Stoker in September 1853, and was discharged to Fishguard as supernumerary on 11 June 1854, but entered in Jackal from that date until his discharge to shore on 30 June 1856.
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Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel T. E. McClintock, Commissariat Department
South Africa 1834-53 (D. A. Comy. Genl. T. E. McClintock.) contemporarily re-engraved in upright capitals; Crimea 1854-56, no clasp, unnamed as issued, with contemporary top silver riband buckle, this lacking pin; contact marks and edge bruising, therefore very fine (2)
£200-£240
Theodore Ernest McClintock was born in 1829 in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland, the son of Henry and Elizabeth McClintock and the brother of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock, one of the greatest arctic explorers of the Victorian age. He was first commissioned and entered the Commissariat Department in January 1846, later transferring as a commissioned officer into the Army Pay Department on its formation and serving on a number of military stations for over thirty years both at home and abroad. He was Deputy Assistant Commissary General with seniority from December 1849 and his first entry in Hart’s Army List came in 1851 giving his station as Cape of Good Hope and stating that he was in commissariat charge of a strong force which marched from Natal to the Orange River Sovereignty to the assistance of the troops at Bloemfontein against Basuto chief Moshesh, from August 1851 to July 1852. He served in South Australia in 1853 and also in the Crimea in the spring of 1857 with the Turkish Contingent at Kirtch.
His Crimea Medal is confirmed on medal roll WO 100/34, page 274, with a note against his name stating ‘medal sent to H & R for reissue 31/10 – 56’.
McClintock was advanced Assistant Commissary General with seniority in October 1860 and served in China in 1862. He saw further service at the Cape of Good Hope from 1864 to 1868 before returning England. He was appointed Pay Master, ranking with Major in 1874 and was stationed in Manchester in 1874, Dover in 1876, Dublin in 1878 and finally Gibraltar in 1880 where he was District Pay Master (Hon Major) in the Army Pay Department. His final entry in Hart’s in 1882 shows him as Staff Pay Master with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died in 1900.
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