Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private R. J. Brown, Royal Marines

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (9583 Pte., R.M.L.I., H.M.S. Terrible) large impressed naming; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Pte., R.M., H.M.S. Terrible) slight contact marks, very fine (2) £550-650

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy.

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Robert James Brown was born in Honiton, Exeter on 10 September 1880. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Marines at Salisbury on 12 March 1898. Serving on the Terrible, June 1899-August 1900, he landed with the Naval Brigade in Cape Colony and served in Natal; then in the China War he served in the relief of Pekin. On 30 August 1900 he was invalided from the Terrible and China service having received a bullet wound to his left knee. Returning home he was discharged as permanently disabled on 11 April 1901. Sold with original Parchment Certificate, copied service paper, a copied newspaper extract in which he is listed amongst the wounded in China, and a reprinted photograph of H.M.S. Terrible.