Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Commander F. A. Winter, Royal Navy, who was specially promoted for services in Egypt and mentioned in despatches for ‘Witu 1890’ when he was in command of the machine guns ashore

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Sub. Lieut.: F. A. Winter. R.N., H.M.S. “Agincourt”.); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (Lieut. F. A. Winter R.N., H.M.S. Kingfisher.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, light contact marks, otherwise extremely fine (3) £700-£900

Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996.

Frederick Arthur Winter was born in East Bradinham on 18 November 1861 and entered the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet aboard H.M.S. Britannia in October 1876. Advanced to Sub-Lieutenant in November 1880 and appointed to H.M.S. Agincourt in January 1882, he served in the Egypt operations of the same year and was present at Tel-el-Kebir, being one of just nine Sub-Lieutenants promoted to Lieutenant for ‘officers engaged in the 11 July 1882 attack on the Egyptian forts and in subsequent operations in Egypt’. He was presented with the Egypt medal by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 21 November 1882.

Following this promotion he was immediately appointed to H.M.S. Pegasus, where he served for three years. Winter joined H.M.S. Kingfisher and was present in the Witu operations of 1890 when he was Mentioned in Despatches as being ‘in command of the machine-guns ashore’. Advanced to Commander in December 1895, his promising career was cut short on 27 July 1897, when he died while on the books of H.M.S. Hood.