Pair: Ordinary Seaman H. E. Dye, H.M.S. Terrible, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (H. E. Dye, Ord. H.M.S. Terrible.); China 1900, no clasp (H. E. Dye, Ord., H.M.S. Terrible.); together with the recipient’s Borough of Portsmouth Tribute Medal 1899-1900, silver (hallmarks for Birmingham 1902) and enamel, the reverse inscribed, ‘Naval Brigade, H. E. Dye, South Africa 1899-1900; North China 1900’, mounted from a fob chain, light blue enamel lacking from last, minor edge bruising and contact marks, generally very fine (3) £400-£500

Herbert Ernest Dye was born at Tidal Basin, London, on 19 March 1881 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 24 July 1898. He was posted to H.M.S. Terrible on 5 September 1899, and served with them as part of the Naval Brigade in South Africa and China. He was promoted Able Seaman on 14 April 1901, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on 17 June 1905. He was discharged, time expired, on 18 March 1911.