Medals for the Boxer Rebellion 1900 to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines

Five: Petty Officer A. H. Culmer, Royal Navy

China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (A.B., H.M.S. Barfleur); 1914-15 Star (193079 P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (193079 C.P.O.,.R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (193079 P.O., H.M.S. Pembroke) edge bruising, worn (5) £260-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for the Boxer Rebellion 1900 to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

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H.M.S. Barfleur was a Battleship of 10,500 tons, built in Chatham Dockyard and launched in August 1892. A total of 272 officers and other ranks of the ship were entitled to the China Medal with single clasp ‘Relief of Pekin’.

Able Seaman A. H. Culmer was wounded in the left thigh at Tientsin on 13 July 1900.