Six: Chief Petty Officer H. Halsey, Royal Navy, East and West Africa, one clasp, Benin 1897 (A.B., H.M.S. Theseus); China 1900, no clasp (A.B., H.M.S. Daphne); 1914-15 Star (168295 A.C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (168295 C.P.O., R.N.); Naval Long Service and Good Conduct, G.V.R., 'Admiral's bust' (168295 C.P.O., H.M.S. Pembroke), first two heavily contact marked, fine, the remainder good very fine (6)

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Six: Chief Petty Officer H. Halsey, Royal Navy, East and West Africa, one clasp, Benin 1897 (A.B., H.M.S. Theseus); China 1900, no clasp (A.B., H.M.S. Daphne); 1914-15 Star (168295 A.C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (168295 C.P.O., R.N.); Naval Long Service and Good Conduct, G.V.R., 'Admiral's bust' (168295 C.P.O., H.M.S. Pembroke), first two heavily contact marked, fine, the remainder good very fine (6)

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Lot Essay

Chief Petty Officer Henry Halsey was born in Charlton, Kent in April 1877 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in April 1895. Joining the Ship's Company of H.M.S. Theseus as an Able Seaman in May 1897, he went on to serve in the Benin operations of the same year, and, having joined the Daphne in early 1899, in operations off the coast of China in the Boxer Rebellion. The outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 found him employed as a Petty Officer in the Destroyer Depot Ship Tyne, but he went on to enjoy a seagoing appointment aboard the Destroyer Chelmer between January 1917 and February 1919. Halsey was finally pensioned ashore in April of the latter year.