Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (T. Hartley, Sh. Std., H.M.S. Porpoise.), nearly extremely fine £140-£180

Thomas Hartley was born in Kingston, Surrey, on 30 May 1879 and entered naval service on 2 November 1893, as a Ship’s Steward’s Boy on H.M.S. Victory I. Promoted to Ship’s Steward on 6 January 1902, he served in H.M.S. Porpoise from 23 September 1902 to 10 December 1904, during the Somaliland operations. Having spent most of the Great War on the Chinese Station in H.M.S. Tamar and, later, in H.M.S. Vindictive, he was demobilised to shore in June 1921.