Orders, Decorations and Medals

Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Lt. C. Harding, R.N., H.M.S. Amethyst, 73-74) nearly very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Ashantee War 1873-74.

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Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, February 1997.

Claude Harding was born on 2 October 1846 and first entered as a Naval Cadet aboard H.M.S. Britannia on 11 September 1860, passing to Scylla in December 1861, and as a Midshipman to Formidable (1863-65). He was promoted to Sub Lieutenant in December 1866 to serve aboard Phoebe (1867-69). Promoted to Lieutenant 1 June 1869, in which rank his first Commission was aboard H.M.S. Amethyst from July 1873 to May 1874. He was included in Captain Glover's force as one of ten British officers picked by him to advance upon Coomassie via the waters of the River Volta. Lieutenant Harding was in temporary command of the native camp at Adda Foah, on the mouth of the Volta. Harding became a Lieutenant in H.M. Coast Guard from 1878, until retired at his own request with the rank of Commander in October 1887. He died on 21 November 1921.