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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 103

Four: Leading Stoker W.H. Faux, Royal Navy China 1900, no clasp (W.H. Faux, Sto., H.M.S. Terrible.); 1914-15 Star (291558, W.H. Faux, Act. L. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (291558 W.H. Faux. Act. L. Sto. R.N.), generally good very fine (4) Estimate £ 160-200 291558 Leading Stoker William Henry Faux, born Bristol, March 1875; enlisted in the Royal Navy in H.M.S. Vivid, March 1899; served in H.M.S. Terrible (1.5.1900 - 24.10.1902); served during the Great War in H.M. Submarine C29; promoted Acting Leading Stoker, 1.7.1915; killed in action, 29.8.1915, when the C29 struck a mine whilst on patrol in the Humber Estuary and sunk with the loss of all lives; Faux is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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