Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Petty Officer W. S. Clifford, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (142767, W. S. Clifford, C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (142767 W. S. Clifford. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (W. S. Clifford, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Bonaventure.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (W. Clifford. L.S. H.M.S. Melita 1896) contemporarily engraved naming, polished and worn, good fine and better (5) £240-£280

Walter Stewart Clifford was born in Portsmouth on 13 May 1872 and joined the Royal Nay as a Boy Second Class on 16 September 1887. He served in H.M.S. Melita as a Leading Seaman from 28 September 1896, and was advanced Petty Officer 2nd Class on 7 November 1896, and Petty Officer First Class on 1 April 1897, seeing active service during the Dongolla campaign.

Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 7 July 1906, Clifford was advanced Chief Petty Officer on 1 November 1907, and was shore pensioned on 16 April 1912. He saw further service during the Great War, and was finally discharged on 9 April 1919. He died in Exeter on 30 September 1940.

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