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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 508

A 'Queen Victoria's Funeral 1902' R.V.M. group of five awarded to Chief Petty Officer C. R. Walker, Royal Navy, who was further awarded the Royal Humane Society Testimonial on Vellum for bravery on the Suez Canal in 1889

Royal Victorian Medal, silver, V.R.; Coronation 1902, bronze issue; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (C. R. Walker. Boy 1 Cl. H.M.S. Briton.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (C. R. Walker. C.P.O., H.M.Y. Victoria & Albert.), impressed naming; Khedive's Star 1884-89, contact marks and a little wear to naming, nearly very fine (5)

R.V.M. (Silver) for the Funeral of Queen Victoria.

Charles Richard Walker was born at Greenwich on 16 July 1867 and joined the Royal Navy on 24 October 1882. Having seen active service in Egypt and Sudan aboard the Briton (Medal without clasp), he was made Petty Officer by 1889. He was awarded a Royal Humane Society Testimonial on Vellum for his bravery in assisting in saving the lives of the crew of a steam pinnace which collided with a barge and capsized. The general party were all 'in the drink' some 130 feet from shore and went and got Private Carter, Cheshire Regiment safely to the bank on a 'dark and very cold' night. Serving aboard the Royal Yacht from 1895, he added the 1902 Coronation and his L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1903. He was discharged from the Victoria & Albert in July 1905.

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