Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Able Seaman J. P. Forbes, Royal Navy

China 1900, no clasp (J. P. Forbes, A.B., H.M.S. Undaunted.); British War Medal 1914-20 (104504 J. P. Forbes. A.B. R.N.), good very fine (2) £140-£180

John Pithie Forbes was born in Dundee, Forfarshire, on 1 May 1862 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 25 February 1878. He was advanced Able Seaman on 24 September 1884, and served in H.M.S. Undaunted from 11 July to 5 September 1900. He was shore pensioned on 15 January 1901, but was recalled for service in the Great War on 2 August 1914, serving in H.M.S. Vivid I. He was shore demobilised on 19 May 1919; these medals appear to be his complete entitlement.