Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Assistant Surgeon C. F. Williams, Royal Navy

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu, (Chas. F. Williams. Asst. Surgn. “Cleopatra”); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Chas. F. Williams, Asst. Surgn. “Cyclops”) contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, fitted with rings for suspension, light contact marks, otherwise better than very fine (3) £600-£800

Charles Foster Williams was born in 1824 and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Navy on 21 November 1846, having passed the London Diploma on 29 May that year. He served aboard a variety of vessels including the Cleopatra during the operations in Burma, and the Cyclops in the Crimea. Williams was court martialed in September 1863 for drunkenness, being reprimanded and admonished ‘to be more circumspect in his conduct in future’. Later that year he was late in joining H.M.S. Cambridge and a special report was to be made on the state of his health. In January 1864 he was admitted to R.N. Hospital, Plymouth with a stricture of the urethra. This stricture led to fistula formation and he was not discharged until August 1864. He was again admitted in March 1865 with haematuria and was discharged in May 1865. In August 1867 he was surveyed and placed on half-pay. Williams died on 8 March 1874.

Sold with copied record of service.