Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Able Seaman W. B. Knight, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (159700 A.B. W. B. Knight, H.M.S. Terrible) officially engraved naming; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (W. B. Knight, A.B. H.M.S. Terrible); together with Borough of Portsmouth Tribute Medal, 27mm, silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1902, the reverse impressed ‘Naval Brigade South Africa 1899-1900 North China 1900’, good very fine (3) £500-£700

Provenance: Clive Nowell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2009.

William Benjamin Knight was born in Solihull, Warwickshire in February 1876 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in March 1891. Advanced to Able Seaman in October 1894, he went on to witness active service with H.M.S. Terrible in the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion, being landed in Natal and for the relief of Pekin operations. Transferring to the Royal Fleet Reserve in 1906, Knight was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 and served in the cruiser Europa until May 1915.

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