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Six: Leading Seaman H. C. Burlingham, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J.9699. H. C....
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Six: Leading Seaman H. C. Burlingham, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J.9699. H. C. Burlingham. A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.9699 H. C. Burlingham. A.B. R.N.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (J.9699. H. C. Burlingham, A.B. H.M.S. Clio.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Iraq 1919-1920 (J.9699 H. C. Burlingham. A.B. R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (J.9699 (Ch.B. 19637) H. C. Burlingham. L.S. R.F.R..) light contact marks, otherwise toned, good very fine and scarce (6) £1,800-£2,200 --- Only 122 medals or clasps issued for ‘Iraq 1919-1920’, 53 of whom also qualified for the clasp ‘Somaliland 1920’. Harold Cliff Burlingham was born at Kilburn, London, on 14 July 1894 (revised on record of service to November) and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in Impregnable on 1 September 1910, an indoor porter by trade. He signed on for 12 years on 14 July 1912, and by the outbreak of hostilities was rated Able Seaman in H.M.S. Fairey in the 8th Destroyer Flotilla. In February 1916 he was seconded to the Royal Indian Marine and to the sloop Alert, depot ship anchored off Abadan Island in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, where she was involved with the fitting out of newly-built gunboats. Some of her crew volunteered for service aboard the Julnar for the ill-fated attempt to relieve Kut in April 1916. Burlingham reverted to the Royal Navy on from 23 August 1919, when he joined H.M.S. Clio, refitting at Gibraltar before moving to the Persian Gulf in December 1919, where she took part in the operations in Somaliland and Iraq. Burlingham left Clio in December 1920 and was discharged to Shore on 22 May 1924, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve shortly afterwards. Sold with copied record of service.
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Six: Leading Seaman H. C. Burlingham, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J.9699. H. C. Burlingham. A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.9699 H. C. Burlingham. A.B. R.N.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (J.9699. H. C. Burlingham, A.B. H.M.S. Clio.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Iraq 1919-1920 (J.9699 H. C. Burlingham. A.B. R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (J.9699 (Ch.B. 19637) H. C. Burlingham. L.S. R.F.R..) light contact marks, otherwise toned, good very fine and scarce (6) £1,800-£2,200 --- Only 122 medals or clasps issued for ‘Iraq 1919-1920’, 53 of whom also qualified for the clasp ‘Somaliland 1920’. Harold Cliff Burlingham was born at Kilburn, London, on 14 July 1894 (revised on record of service to November) and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in Impregnable on 1 September 1910, an indoor porter by trade. He signed on for 12 years on 14 July 1912, and by the outbreak of hostilities was rated Able Seaman in H.M.S. Fairey in the 8th Destroyer Flotilla. In February 1916 he was seconded to the Royal Indian Marine and to the sloop Alert, depot ship anchored off Abadan Island in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, where she was involved with the fitting out of newly-built gunboats. Some of her crew volunteered for service aboard the Julnar for the ill-fated attempt to relieve Kut in April 1916. Burlingham reverted to the Royal Navy on from 23 August 1919, when he joined H.M.S. Clio, refitting at Gibraltar before moving to the Persian Gulf in December 1919, where she took part in the operations in Somaliland and Iraq. Burlingham left Clio in December 1920 and was discharged to Shore on 22 May 1924, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve shortly afterwards. Sold with copied record of service.
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