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Auction: 23002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 46

Six: Chief Petty Officer W. Grubb, Royal Navy

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (178782 A.B. W. Grubb. H.M.S. Terrible.), engraved naming; China 1900, no clasp (W. Grubb. A.B. H.M.S. Woodlark.); 1914-15 Star (178782, W. Grubb, P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (178782 W. Grubb. Act. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (178782. Wilfred Grubb, P.O., H.M.S. Arrogant.), good very fine (6)

Wilfred Grubb was born at Birmingham, Warwickshire on 13 January 1879 and joined the Royal Navy on 13 January 1897. He served ashore with the Naval Brigade landed from Terrible in Natal during the Boer War (Medal & clasp). He thence joined Woodlark and was present off China in 1900, earning one of just 36 Medals without clasp issued to her. During the Great War he served aboard Arrogant from October 1914- January 1917 and was discharged ashore in February 1919.

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£750

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£320