A Very Scarce China Campaign Medal Bar Buy Now a number of submarines held

a number of submarines held in reserve and manned by skeleton crews

about a battalion of infantry and what I thought was a lorry

He retired on 14 September 1905

Sibthorpe was not with the E 6 then and would have been a "spare crew"

Footnote: interestingly

A Very Scarce China Campaign Medal Bar Buy Now a number of submarines heldA Very Scarce China Campaign Medal Bar mounted as worn Prussian style, comprising: Prussian General Service Medal, in silver; China Campaign Medal, Combatants issue, with clasp Peitang Forts; Wilhelm Centenary medal 1897, bronze; Mecklenburg Schwerin, Military Merit Cross 1900, in bronze (issued for China Campaign); in slightly worn condition, with nice patina.