Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (H. G. Arnold, Deputy Victg. Store Officer, Cape of Good Hope) impressed naming, extremely fine and very scarce £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Naval and Indian Marine Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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Henry George Arnold was appointed Acting Assistant Storekeeper at the Admiralty in April 1896, and Assistant Victualling Store Officer at Malta on 10 April 1898. On 19 November 1898 he was appointed Assistant Victualling Store Officer in Charge at the Cape of Good Hope, becoming Deputy Victualling Store Officer in Charge on 3 August 1900. Here, of course, he became involved in the Boer war and subsequently received the Queen’s South Africa medal with Cape Colony clasp, one of only eight medals to the Cape Victualling Yard shown on the naval medal rolls.

In January 1904, Arnold was transferred to Malta as Deputy Victualling Store Officer, and, in February 1905 in the same capacity to Gibraltar. Later, in April 1907, he was transferred to the Royal Victoria Yard at Deptford. In 1908 Arnold was at the Admiralty as a Deputy Store Officer, followed by two appointments as a Victualling Store Officer, firstly at Gibraltar from January 1909, and then back at Deptford from March 1911. He remained at Deptford for most of the Great War, and was appointed an M.B.E. (Civil) on 3 June 1918.

Shortly after the conferment of this honour, Arnold was appointed in 1918 an Acting Superintending Clerk in the Victualling Department at the Admiralty, and he remained at the Admiralty for the remainder of his service. He ceased to be Acting in 1921, and in 1924 the rank was retitled as Victualling Store Officer. He is last mentioned in the Navy List for October 1930, and he presumably retired at that time.