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Auction: 8023 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 125

An Unusual Life Saving and Campaign Combination Group of Five to Chief Shipwright J.H. Wellington, Royal Navy East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Benin 1897 (J.H. Wellington, Lg. Car. Crew, H.M.S. Alecto.); 1914-15 Star (340310 J.H. Wellington, Ch. Shpt., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (340310 J.H. Wellington. Shpt. 1 R.N.); Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal, successful (Joseph Henry Wellington 16th July 1893), with integral top riband buckle, good very fine (5) Estimate £ 350-450 Joseph Henry Wellington, born Newtown, Cornwall, 1874; awarded the Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal when ´´at great personal risk, he rescued Frederick W. Hills from drowning in the Fowey River, Cornwall on 16.7.1893´´; joined the Royal Navy 1894; Shipwright 24.3.1898; Chief Shipwright 5.9.1915. Approximately 58 ´´Benin 1897´´ clasps to H.M.S. Alecto

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