Pair: Chaplain D.J. Boutflower, Royal Navy, Baltic, unnamed as issued; India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Perak (Rev., M.A., Chapn. & NI. Instr., H.M.S. Charybdis), one or two edge bruises but generally very fine or better and scarce (2)

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Pair: Chaplain D.J. Boutflower, Royal Navy, Baltic, unnamed as issued; India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Perak (Rev., M.A., Chapn. & NI. Instr., H.M.S. Charybdis), one or two edge bruises but generally very fine or better and scarce (2)

Lot Essay

The Reverend Douglas John Boutflower was born in September 1826 and completed his education at Christ Church, Oxford. Ordained at Exeter in September 1852, he joined the Royal Navy as a Chaplain and Naval Instructor in September 1854 and served in the Baltic operations of 1855 aboard H.M.S. Cossack. Subsequently enjoying several other seagoing appointments over the next two decades, he once more encountered active service in H.M.S. Charybdis during the Perak operations of late 1874. Retiring on an Admiralty Pension in 1881, Boutflower died at Dundry, near Bristol in December 1882.