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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 60

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Lieut. W. L. Fielding, R.N. H.M.S. Swiftsure.), extremely fine

Walter Lionel Fielding was born at Dover on 25 October 1885. He began his service with Britannia on 15 January and was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant on 15 August 1905 and to full Lieutenant on 15 February 1907. He saw service in China on King Edward VII from 6 August 1907 and again on Clio from 23 July 1908. He was likely with her that same year when she transported the disgraced The Korea Daily News journalist Ernest Bethell to prison at Shanghai after he was found guilty of agitating for Korean Independance from Japan. Posted to Swiftsure, flagship of the East Indies Station on 25 April 1913, it was with her that he earned his clasp for the Persian Gulf.

Fielding died of Enteric Fever at the Station Hospital, Colaba, Bombay on 17 March 1914 and was buried the following day at the Sewree Cemetery. His Naval General Service Medal was sent to his father Ernest Fielding on 25 January 1916.

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£290

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