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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 640

(x) Three: Commissioned Boatswain W. T. Hicks, Royal Navy

Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, no clasp (189088 W. T. Hicks. A.B., H.M.S. Redbreast); Naval L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (189088 W. T. Hicks, P.O. H.M.S. Caesar.); Naval Good Shooting Medal, E.VII.R. (189088 W. Hicks, P.O. 2.Cl., H.M.S. Empress of India. 1903. 13.5 In. B.L.), the third with officially re-impressed naming, very fine (3)

Walter Terry Hicks was born on 21 November 1878 at Brixham, Devon, and was a stable boy upon enlistment on 21 November 1896. Hicks saw steady promotion to Petty Officer 2nd Class aboard Lion in 1903, and Petty Offer 1st Class aboard Empress of India, and it was with the latter that he was awarded the Naval Good Shooting Medal - he formed part of the winning gun team of one of her four breech-loading 13.5 inch guns. Hicks served during the entirety of the Great War as an Ordinary Seaman, later Bosun, aboard Thunderer, and was present at the Battle of Jutland. Promoted Commissioned Boatswain in March 1922, he retired a few months later on 22 June 1922 (entitled to 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal); sold with copied service record.


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£480