A Group of Five to 166384 AB C W Tubb HMS Powerful / Naval Brigade Shore Party

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  • A Group of Five to 166384 AB C W Tubb HMS Powerful / Naval Brigade Shore Party

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Direct from the family, first time on the market. Only 19 Five Bar QSA's to H.M.S. Powerful 
 
A  group of five and a WW1 Pair to his son. 
 
Queens South Africa Medal, Belmont; Modder River; Relief of Kimberley; Paardeberg and Driefontein. Correctly engraved 166384 A. B. C.W. Tubb. H.M.S. Powerful. 
 
1914/15 Star, correctly impressed - 166384. C.W. Tubb. A.B.R.N.
 
British War Medal, correctly impressed - 166384 C.W. Tubb. A.B.R.N. ( very neat official correction to service number)
 
Victory Medal, correctly impressed - 166384. C.W. Tubb. A.B.R.N. 
 
EVII Naval LSGC., correctly impressed 166384 C. W. Tubb, Boatn, H.M. Coast Guard
 
All medals and bars confirmed.
Condition = GVF
 
Pair correctly impressed - J.55378 C.E. Tubb. Ord. R.N.
Condition = GVF+ 
 
Group of Five 
 
Charles Wilton Tubb was born on 6th January 1876 in Titchfield in Hampshire.  He joined the Royal Navy on his 16th birthday, signing on for 12 years. In civilian life, he had been a Carrier's Porter. 
 
Starting as a Boy 2nd Class, by the time he joined H.M.S. Powerful, he held the rank of Able Bodied Seaman. Tubb was part of the Naval Brigade, which went ashore from Powerful. He took part in the actions at Belmont and Modder River in November 1899 and went on to see action at the Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg and Driefontein. 
 
Discharged in April 1907, at the time of the 1911 census, he was serving with the Coast Guard on the Isle of Wight. His address was given as 3 Coast Guard Station, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
 
On the outbreak of the Great War, he rejoined on saw active service on H.M.S. Grafton from August 1914 until December 1914. He then served in onshore establishments until he transferred back to the Coast Guard in 1919.
 
Charles moved to Whitby in North Yorkshire in the immediate post-war years. In 1939 he was retired and living at 'Hazelbank', Greenbank, Whitby.
He passed away in 1952 while living in Hampshire.
 
Pair
 
Charles Edward Tubb was born on 1st February 1901 in Portsmouth, his father being based there. 
 
Charles followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Royal Navy in 1916 as a Boy 2nd class. He was invalided in 1920 and passed away in Whitby in 1921.