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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 833

Miniature Awards: A Group of Four Attributed to Lieutenant W.H. Childers, Royal Navy
Baltic 1854; Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol; China 1857-60, two clasps, Fatshan 1857, Canton 1857; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, nearly very fine or better, all with contemporary Hunt and Roskell top silver riband buckles, the first three mounted together in reverse order (4)

Lieutenant William Henry Childers, born June 1837; appointed Midshipman, H.M.S. Tribune, June 1853, and served with the force in the Baltic and Crimea, and during the Second China War, where he was employed with the Force that took part in the capture and destruction of Chinese War Vessels at Escape Creek, 25.5.1857; and in the destruction of the Fatshan Flotilla of War Junks, 1.6.1857 (London Gazette 1.8.1857); promoted Mate, July 1857; Lieutenant, August 1859; served in H.M.S. Octavia, September 1867 to August 1868; appointed Resident Transport Officer, Aden, and employed on Transport Service during the Abyssinian Expedition, 1867-68; died suddenly in active service onboard H.M.S. Black Prince from a rupture of a blood vessel, 29th April 1869, less than two months after the Abyssinia Medal was sanctioned.

For Lieutenant W.H. Childers' full-size Abyssinia Medal, see Lot 596

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