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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 64

x Pair: Able Seaman D.G. Perkins, Royal Navy China 1900, one clasp, Taku Forts (D.G. Perkins, Ord., H.M.S. Orlando.); Naval General Service 1915-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-14 (197231. D.G. Perkins, A.B. H.M.S. Swiftsure.), ship partially officially corrected on last, generally very fine or better (2) Estimate £ 400-440 197231 Able Seaman David George Perkins, served in H.M.S. Orlando during the Third China War, before serving as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Swiftsure, in whom he saw service in the Persian Gulf and during the Great War (entitled to 1914-15 Star trio); he died of asphyxiation caused by gas fumes, 6.6.1915, whilst on operations in the Dardanelles (a Petty Officer H.B. Tucker is recorded as having died in H.M.S. Swiftsure of the same cause on the same date); Perkins is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial; his N.G.S. was sent to the recipient´´s father George Perkins, 23.5.1916. Approximately 35 ´´Taku Forts´´ clasp awards to H.M.S. Orlando.

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