Orders, Decorations and Medals

The China War medal awarded to John Doyle, Paymaster, Royal Navy, who is entitled to the rare 'China 1842' clasp

CHINA 1842 (John Doyle, Clerk, H.M.S. Apollo) fitted with contemporary bar suspension and ribbon buckle, very fine and rare

Further entitled to the rare clasp 'China 1842' which was allowed to 101 officers and men who served in the first and second China wars. John Doyle passed his examination on 6 January 1841, and was appointed to H.M.S. Apollo in which ship he served during the campaign in China at the storming and capture of Chin Keang Foo in July 1842. He was promoted Paymaster on 6 March 1856, and on 12 May 1859, was appointed to H.M.S. Cambrian on the East India and China Station. In Cambrian he became entitled to the second China war medal but the note on the medal roll 'Has the Medal for 1842' indicates that he would have received just the clasp 'China 1842' to add to his earlier medal. Confirmed on the roll of recipients for the clasp 'China 1842' in 'Naval Medals 1793-1856' by Captain K.J. Douglas-Morris, where further details will be found.