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China 1900, no clasp (R. E. Daws, Pte. R.M., H.M.S. Waterwitch.) rank officially corrected,...
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China 1900, no clasp (R. E. Daws, Pte. R.M., H.M.S. Waterwitch.) rank officially corrected, good very fine £160-£200 --- Approximately 80 no clasp China Medals awarded to H.M.S. Waterwitch, of which 7 were awarded to the ship’s complement of Royal Marines. Robert Edmund Daws was born in Portland, Dorset, on 25 September 1872 and enlisted into the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines at Edinburgh on 15 February 1895. Posted to the wooden sloop H.M.S. Waterwitch (which had an interesting pedigree, being believed to have been a private yacht called the White Lady that was given to the society beauty Mrs. Lillie Langtry by an admirer, prior to being purchased by the Royal Navy in 1893), Daws served in her from 20 February 1900 to 14 May 1903, seeing active service in the Boxer Rebellion, and was paid the China Grant on 13 December 1902. He was discharged on 19 February 1907 upon the completion of his first period of service. Sold with copied record of service, and a copy of the article ‘H.M.S. Waterwitch, 1893-1912: In Memoriam’, by Dr. Philip J. Kerry, published in the Orders and Medals Research Society Journal, September 2007, which features the recipient and his medal.
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China 1900, no clasp (R. E. Daws, Pte. R.M., H.M.S. Waterwitch.) rank officially corrected, good very fine £160-£200 --- Approximately 80 no clasp China Medals awarded to H.M.S. Waterwitch, of which 7 were awarded to the ship’s complement of Royal Marines. Robert Edmund Daws was born in Portland, Dorset, on 25 September 1872 and enlisted into the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines at Edinburgh on 15 February 1895. Posted to the wooden sloop H.M.S. Waterwitch (which had an interesting pedigree, being believed to have been a private yacht called the White Lady that was given to the society beauty Mrs. Lillie Langtry by an admirer, prior to being purchased by the Royal Navy in 1893), Daws served in her from 20 February 1900 to 14 May 1903, seeing active service in the Boxer Rebellion, and was paid the China Grant on 13 December 1902. He was discharged on 19 February 1907 upon the completion of his first period of service. Sold with copied record of service, and a copy of the article ‘H.M.S. Waterwitch, 1893-1912: In Memoriam’, by Dr. Philip J. Kerry, published in the Orders and Medals Research Society Journal, September 2007, which features the recipient and his medal.
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