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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 162

Three: Commissioned Boatman J. Charles, Royal Navy
Baltic 1854; China 1857-60, two clasps, Canton 1857, Fatshan 1857, unnamed as issued, unofficial retaining rod between clasps; Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R. (Jn. Charles Cd. Boatmn. H.M. Coast Gd. 24 Yrs.), suspension claw re-affixed on second, generally good very fine (3)

Commissioned Boatman John Charles, born Lulworth, Dorset, October 1834; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, November 1847; advanced Ordinary Seaman, October 1852; posted to H.M.S. Cruizer, April 1853, and served in her during the Baltic Campaign and Second China War; transferred to H.M.S. St. Vincent, May 1861; awarded Naval L.S. & G.C., April 1875.

For the medals to his son, Chief Petty Officer G.W. Charles, see Lot 176

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