A Chinese Order of the Double Dragon medal, diaries, notebooks and other items relating to Harry Sait will be sold at Young's Auctions on April 28.
As a Western-style Chinese order the Order of the Double Dragon was established to engage with the West and to follow Western diplomatic practices in the wake of the Second Opium War.
The order was in 1911 replaced by the Grand Order of the Throne, however the Republic of China discontinued the imperial orders after being established in 1912.
This medal up for sale at Young's Auctions is of the fourth class, type 1. A medal awarded to soldiers and non commissioned officers. This one was awarded to Harry Sait, the grandson of Able Seaman Henry Sait who lost his life in the Franklin Expedition sometime after its departure from England in 1845. Harry Sait served with the Imperial Navy before he returned to England in 1889/90.