Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant J. Holmes, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, Cape Colony, clasps mounted in this order, with unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (J. H. Holmes, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Terpsichore.) impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (Gnr. J. H. Holmes. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. Gnr. J. H. Holmes. R.N.) with crushed named card boxes of issue for both the QSA and the 1914-15 Star, good very fine and better (4) £300-£400

James Herbert Holmes was born at Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, on 15 October 1875 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 9 July 1891. Advanced Petty Officer First Class on 21 December 1900, he served in H.M.S. Terpsichore from 7 February 1901 to 14 March 1902, and served ashore with the Naval Brigade during the Boer War in South Africa. Promoted Acting Gunner on 14 July 1903, he was confirmed in that rank on 12 July 1904, and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Lancaster. He was promoted Chief Gunner on 14 July 1918, and Lieutenant on 12 August 1922, and having been placed on the Retired List, medically unfit, on 4 April 1925, died in Colchester on 27 June 1925.

Sold with copied records of service and medal roll extracts.