Single Campaign Medals 594 China 1900, no clasp (Captain: E. F. Harding. 23rd Madras Lt. Infy.) very fine £400-£500
Edward Francis Harding was born in 1881 and obtained his first commissioned in the 4th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (Militia) in 1888. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, North Staffordshire Regiment, the following year, he served with his Regiment in Mauritius 1890-93, including the disaster in that place. Promoted Lieutenant in October 1893, he transferred to the Indian Staff Corps in December of that year. Subsequently serving in Malta, South Africa, China, Burma and the Anderman Islands, he was invalided out of service in September 1903. Captain Harding saw active service during the China War of 1900-01, being attached to the 23rd Madras Infantry.
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Sold with copied research. The medal roll notes ‘medal reissued 4 December 1912.’ China 1900, no clasp (1490 Gnr: C. J. Baker. 3rd. Sec: Maxims) very fine
45 medals issued to the 5th Maxim Gun Section. 596 China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (J. Barrett, P.O. 2 Cl., H.M.S. Terrible) good very fine £400-£500
John Barrett was born in Lancaster on 19 May 1872. A labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in Impregnable on 2 February 1888, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in February 1889. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in Invincible in May 1890 and Able Seaman in Blanche in May 1891. Barrett served in H.M.S. Terrible, 24 March 1898-October 1900 and attained the rank of Petty Officer 2nd Class on 5 June 1900. He served in Wilde’s 12 pounder gun unit in South Africa (entitled to Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasp for Relief of Ladysmith) and in China he served with a 12 pounder gun unit detachment. He was wounded at Tientsin on 9 July 1900. He died on board the transport ship S.S. Malta whilst on passage from Hong Kong to England - from acute alcoholism followed by exhaustion and heart failure.
Sold with copied record of service, medal roll extracts, and other research. 597
China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (F. C. Randall, A.B. H.M.S. Terrible) contact marks and edge nicks, otherwise nearly very fine
£200-£240 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004.
F. C. Randall also served in South Africa in H.M.S. Terrible’s Naval Brigade with Lieutenant Ogilvey’s 12-pounder Battery of four guns, as a member of No. 1 gun’s crew under Petty Officer Venness as Captain of Gun (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Tugela Heights and Relief of Ladysmith). The rolls note that he was issued with duplicates of both medals.
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Provenance: Glendining’s December 1990. China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (W. H. Wiltsher, A.B., H.M.S. Terrible) edge details worn in places, contact marks,
good fine 599 £140-180
China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (4351 Pte. G. Pennell. 2nd. Rl: Welsh Fus:) minor edge nicks, toned, good very fine £360-£440
George Pennell was born in Lambeth, London, in 1871 and attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at London on 13 June 1894, having previously served with the Middlesex Rifle Volunteers. He served with the 2nd Battalion in Malta, Crete, and Egypt, and in China from 14 December 1898 to 25 December 1902. He was present during the occupation of Crete 1897-98, and in China during the Boxer Rebellion, where he was part of the contingent of 300 men of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers that saw action at the Relief of Peking in August 1900. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 15 February 1903, and was discharged on 12 June 1906, after 12 years’ service.
Sold with copied service papers, medal roll extract, and other research. 600 601 Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland, unnamed specimen, light contact marks, otherwise very fine £180-£220
Africa General Service 1902-56, with suspension bar but lacking suspension rod and clasp [Somaliland 1901], (Lieut: L. Murray, Somali Levy.) officially engraved naming, good very fine
£400-£500
Provenance: Baldwin’s auction, November 2001. Murray received a new medal when he qualified for the clasp ‘Kissi 1905’. This second medal also had the clasp ‘Somaliland 1901’ and is named to him as a Captain in the Sierra Leone Battalion W.A.F.F. It was sold together with his Great War D.S.O. group as part of the Julian Johnson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2017, and previously as part of the Mike Minton Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 1994.
Leslie Murray was born on 29 February 1878 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the East Surrey Regiment on 25 August 1897, being made Lieutenant in 1899. He served in East Africa in the operations in Somaliland 1901, under Captain M. MacNeill, including the attack on the zariba at Samala on 2/3 June 1901, when the Mullah’s forces were driven off with the loss of 600 men killed and wounded (Medal with clasp). Promoted to Captain in 1904 he next took part in the operations in West Africa with the Kissi Field Force, March to June 1905, being one of only 16 British officers to receive the medal with this clasp (Note: It is apparent that Murray received a new medal for this expedition, having already received one for the Somaliland operations of 1901. A medal disc only named ‘Lieut. L. Murray, Somali Levy’ was sold by Baldwin’s Auctions in November 2001).
Murray retired from the East Surrey’s on 3 June 1914 but was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, with whom he served in France and Italy from 21 November 1915, in command of the 14th Battalion. He was wounded by shrapnel during an advance at Nieppe in 1918 (Despatches three times, D.S.O.).
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Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (400 Sepoy Hoossain Khan. II. 101/Gr..) suspension post with solder repair, fixed as a consequence, good fine
£50-£60
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04, bronze issue (145 Cooly Sowar Khan. S. & T. C.) nearly very fine
£100-£140
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