Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Petty Officer Class II H. W. Freeland, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, second clasp loose on riband, as issued (H. W. Freeland, A.B. H.M.S. Naiad.) impressed naming, minor official correction to surname; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (H. W. Freeland, A.B. H.M.S. Naiad.) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £240-£280

Harry William Freeland was born in Ore, Hastings, Sussex, on 2 July 1876 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 21 March 1892. Advanced Petty Officer Class II on 13 April 1899, he reverted to Able Seaman on 25 January 1901, and served in H.M.S. Naiad from 19 March 1901 until 2 August 1904, on which date he purchased his discharge. He saw further service at home during the Great War as a Sergeant in the Royal Army Service Corps, although was not entitled to any medals.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.