Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Ast. Engr. B. A. Brook. R.N. H.M.S. Monarch.) officially engraved naming, edge bruising, very fine £140-180

Provenance: Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, February 1997.

B. A. Brook entered the Royal Navy as a Probationary Assistant Engineer on the 1 July 1900. His first appointment was to H.M.S. Monarch in November 1900, Guardship at the Cape of Good Hope. He was confirmed as an Assistant Engineer with seniority of 1 July 1901, and with introduction of the new Engineering ranks in 1902 he became an Engineer Sub Lieutenant. He was next appointed to H.M.S. Vivid in July 1903, and H.M.S. Pegasus in January 1905, where he was promoted to Engineer Lieutenant on 27 February 1905. He served next aboard H.M.S. Prometheus from July 1906; H.M.S. Racer from November 1907; H.M.S. Cornwallis from December 1909; and H.M.S. Mosquito from January 1913. During the Great War he was appointed to H.M.S. Osiris in September 1915, a commissioned merchant vessel; H.M.S. Argonaut from October 1915; and H.M.S. Osiris II from October 1915, the latter vessel being a merchant that had been converted to a Depot Ship in April 1915. He served next aboard H.M.S. Latona from June 1918; and finally in H.M.S. Hermione from September 1919. He retired in 1920 being promoted to Engineer Lieutenant Commander on the Retired List on 20 October 1922.