Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Petty Officer A. H. White, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith 125048 Lg. Smn. A. H. White, H.M.S. Terrible.) officially engraved naming; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (A. H. White, Lg. Sea., H.M.S. Terrible); 1914-15 Star (125048, A. H. White. P.O., 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (125048 A. H. White P.O. 1 R.N.; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (A. H. White, P.O. 2Cl, H.M.S. Terrible.) mounted for display, naming worn in parts through contact wear on the earlier medals, these good fine, otherwise good very fine (6) £1,000-£1,400

John Cooper Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2001.

Only 88 officers and other ranks of H.M.S. Terrible received the combination of Q.S.A., Relief of Ladysmith and China 1900, Relief of Pekin. See article entitled Double Relief Medals to H.M.S. Terrible, by David Humphry, published Medal News, May 2002.

Alfred Henry White was born at Warblington, Hampshire, on 23 September 1868, and joined the Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. St Vincent on 2 November 1883; Boy 1st Class, November 1884; Ordinary Seaman, September 1886; Able Seaman, February 1888; Leading Seaman, July 1898; Petty Officer 2nd Class, September 1901; Petty Officer 1st Class, July 1905. Served aboard H.M.S. Terrible from 24 March 1898 to 24 October 1902, and received his L.S. & G.C. medal in that ship on 11 March 1902. He transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve on 21 September 1906, and rejoined on 2 August 1914 as P.O.1. He was invalided out on 24 July 1919.

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