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Medal, campaign   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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William Wyon
Title
Medal, campaign
Object type Naval warfare/wars
Classification: 278
Description
English: China War Medal 1857-60 Awarded to Lieut. Walter Heneage Hunt Grubbe, HMS Cormorant silver medal; cusped swivel suspension bar; one bar; original ribbon missing obverse- diademed head of Queen Victoria with legend- VICTORIA REGINA reverse- s collection of war trophies with an oval shield, with the Royal Arms in centre, all under a palm tree; legend above- ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM; in the exergue- CHINA bar- TAKU FORTS 1858 ribbon- crimson with yellow edges named on edge- LIEUT. W.H.H. GRUBBE H.M.S. CORMORANT
Date 1857-1860; 20 May 1858; Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901)-English reign; (Pre 1977)
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diameter: 36mm
width: 32mm
length: 88mm

notes: medal: 36mm diameter ribbon: 32mm wide
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
799935 (object number)
Place of creation United Kingdom; Europe; England
Exhibition history Display: 1F 31
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, N1340
Notes China War Medal 1857-60 Awarded to Lieut. Walter Heneage Hunt Grubbe, HMS Cormorant. Bar- Taku Forts 1858 (20th May 1858) HMS Cormorant was a Royal Navy Vigilant Class gunboat, launched on 23rd February 1856. From late 1857 took part in a number of actions during the second China (Opium) War until on 28th June 1859 she was sunk during an unsuccessful British attack on the Taku Forts, on the Peiho river. Walter Heneage Hunt Grubbe (1835-1864) was working in New Zealand as a surveyor at the time of his death (from heart disease) near Whangamarino on 6th July 1864. Shortly before coming to New Zealand he had received a commission as Gunnery Lieutenant (22 June 1863) in the New South Wales Naval Brigade. He probably came to New Zealand in March-April 1864 with W. R. Collett, formerly Chief-Commissioner for Roads in New South Wales who had been appointed Chief Superintendent of Roads and Bridges in New Zealand and brought with him from Australia a a staff of "120 men, consisting of surveyors, overseers, ganger navvies, bridge builders, &c." (Daily Southern Cross, 4 April 1864, Page 3). His death is commemorated on a family plaque at the church of St Mary the Virgin, Potterne, UK.
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