A Collection of Medals for the Ashantee War 1873-74

Five: Commander C. S. Shuckburgh, Royal Navy, Naval Transport Officer afloat at Cape Coast Castle during the Ashantee War

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Chas. S. Shuckburgh. Midn.) officially impressed naming; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860, unnamed, second clasp loose as issued; Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Lieut. C. S. Shuckburgh, R.N. Transport Officer Afloat, 73-74); Order of the Medjidie, 5th class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, lacking crescent suspension and fitted with reverse brooch and chain for suspension; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, good very fine or better (5) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Ashantee War 1873-74.

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Charles Stukeley Shuckburgh served as a Midshipman in H.M.S. Rodney with the Naval Brigade in the Crimea in 1854-55 and took part in the siege of Sebastopol and various operations until its fall. He was present in Actaeon at the operations on the Canton river in China with the Naval Brigade at the storming of Canton, December 1857, and at the attack and capture of the Taku Forts, 1860. He was appointed Acting Mate in 1859, and subsequently Mate aboard Actaeon, 1860-63.

He was promoted Lieutenant on 8 April 1863, when he was appointed to the Rattlesnake on the west coast of Africa, and was in the corvette Archer from 13 April 1864, in action with natives in the river Congo. He served in Lark at Queenstown in 1866, in the troopship Urgent in 1867, and was Lieutenant in charge of the tender Bruiser at Queenstown in 1872.

Shuckburgh served during the Ashantee war of 1873-74 at Cape Coast Castle as Transport Officer Afloat in the Navy Transport Manitoban. He is the only recorded recipient of a medal for service aboard this vessel. Shuckburgh retired in 1874 and became a Commander on the Retired List in 1883.