Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1900, 2 clasps, Relief of Pekin, Taku Forts (H. Gibson, Armrs. Cr., H.M.S. Aurora.) very fine and scarce £600-£800

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals, the Property of a Lady.

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Confirmed on the roll, one of 46 medals issued with these two clasps to H.M.S. Aurora.

Henry Gibson was born at Gunnislake, Cornwall, on 6 July 1879, and was a Blacksmith by trade when he joined the Royal Navy on 6 December 1897, as provisional Armourer’s Crew in H.M.S. Cambridge. He was rated Armourer’s Crew in April 1898 and served aboard Aurora from February 1899 to April 1902. He was advanced to Armourer’s Mate in November 1902, and to Armourer aboard Leviathan in August 1911, receiving his L.S. & G.C. medal in this ship in December 1912. He was advanced to Acting Electrical Artificer 4th Class in March 1913, to E.A. 4 in March 1915, and to E.A. 3 in March 1917. He served throughout the Great War in Marlborough from June 1914 to November 1919, including the battle of Jutland, and was discharged to Shore from Defiance on 19 March 1920.

Sold with copied record of service.