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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 502

(x) Miniature Awards: A C.B. Group of Seven Attributed to Admiral W.F. Slayter, Royal Navy
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Civil Division, Companion's (C.B.) Badge, silver-gilt; Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Coronation 1911; Khedive's Star 1882, suspension broken on last, generally very fine or better, mounted court-style as originally worn (7)

C.B. London Gazette 16.9.1919 Rear-Admiral William Firth Slayter
'For valuable services during the War as Captain, H.M. Dockyard, Rosyth.'

Admiral William Firth Slayter, C.B. (1867-1936), born Halifax, Nova Scotia; entered the Royal Navy, 1880; served as a Naval Cadet in H.M.S. Agincourt during the Egyptian Campaign, 1882; promoted Lieutenant, H.M.S. Boedicea; served in the Naval Brigade during the Witu Campaign, 1890 (entitled to East and West Africa Medal); promoted Commander, 1901, and served in H.M.Y. Osborne; appointed to the Command of H.M.Y. Alexandra, May 1907; Captain, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, December 1912; served during the Great War as Captain of H.M. Dockyard, Rosyth, and afterwards as Admiral Superintendent, Tyne and Liverpool Districts; created a Companion of the Order of the Bath and promoted Rear-Admiral, 1919; retired, 1920; promoted Vice-Admiral, 1924; Admiral, 1928.

Note: Although entitled to the East and West Africa Medal with clasp Witu 1890, there is no evidence of the recipient ever wearing this medal, either the full-size, or the miniature.

Provenance: Sotheby, January 1973 (when sold alongside his group of seven full-sized medals).

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