NAVY 2nd CHINA WAR MEDAL PAYMASTER WEBB HMS FURY FATSHAN CANTON TAKU FORTS -WW1
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Offered is a Second China Medal (1856 – 60), with 3 clasps FATSHAN 1857, CANTON 1857, TAKU FORTS 1858, impressed named CHAS. JAS WEBB. PAYMR. H.M.S. FURY. Original 1st type ribbon, sewn to top with stiff backing card. Comes with copies of service records, medal roll, marriage certificate and death register.
Paymaster Charles James Webb was born 12th March 1828 at Portsea, Hampshire. He enlisted 7/2/1849 and passed as ‘Clerk’ and posted to various H.M.S ship and shore establishments including: Lily, Glatton (Aetna-class ironclad floating batterie) Jackal (Jackal-class second-class iron paddle gun vessel), Victory, Royal Adelaide (depot ship), Impregnable (training ship)
13 Oct 1855, Assistant Paymaster in Charge H M S Jackal, married Emma Jane Franklin Jewell. Of interest is both their fathers are recorded as being employed as ‘Clerk H M Dock Yard’.
Past clerical and filing 10/5/1856.
Served on H.M.S Fury (a wooden Bulldog-class paddle sloop) 29/7/1856 – 19/6/1861 as paymaster.
The medal roll shows that Webb being entitled to the clasp Taku Forts 1858, however H.M.S Fury is on the list of ships present for the clasp Fatshan 1857 and Canton 1857, so may well be a clerical error, as the clasps all have a unifo0rm age and appearance as being there for a very long time.
He discharged in 1865 & died on 9th September 1875 and is noted as ‘Retired Paymaster Commercial Road, Landport, Portsea’.
