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  Crimea    
59 Clasp Sebastopol (Job Biggard 32 Co. RM.) (Engraved in contemporary capitals) A scarce medal to ship.    
  Born Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1827. He enlisted in the Royal Marines in Trowbridge on 14th February 1846, for a bounty of £3-17s-6p. He served for 21years and 14 days before his discharge in 1867. Embarked on HMS Price Regent, HMS Banshee, a two gun steam driven paddle boat in the Crimea, HMS Asia, HMS Melpomene and HMS Fisgard. With copy of discharge papers and medal roll page.    
 

HMS Banshee as the Holyhead steam packet- before her RN service in the Crimea.

    
 

contact marks & e.k’s.

 NVF £220
       
64 No bar (Ts. Woodhull Gunner HMS Sidon.) (Engraved) HMS Sidon was a first class paddle frigate.    
  Gunners were Warrant Officers responsible for the maintenance of guns and their equipment. They had to be examined and appointed by and were responsible to the Ordnance Board. They had to adhere to strict rules. They made tackle and breeches for guns and make regular inspections during a voyage. Another responsibility was to ensure that powder in the magazines were kept dry. Like boatswains, they remained a warrant rank but had opportunities for promotion to commissioned posts in the nineteenth century.    
 

 

68 pounder gun on HMS Sidon off Sebastopol

    
    NEF £200
Baltic Medal
258 Un-named as issued.                                                                                                 
    VF £195
  Egypt    
114 clasp No bar undated J.G. Gibson ERA 3cl HMS Briton Imp.    
 

light pitting

 GVF £200
       
116 No bar - 1882 H. Matthews Ord HMS Thalia     
 

no pitting

 NEF £195
       
109 clasp Tamaii  (S. Metters Pte. RM)  Impressed naming  Rare single clasp to Royal Marines    
 

Unresearched. No pitting

 EF £500
       
  Africa General Service 1899-1956    
171 clasp Jubaland (J. Foster Pte. RM HMS Magicienne)  Under 200 clasps to RN Scarce VF £580
       
167 clasp Somaliland 1908-10 (302009 S. G. Phipps Sto. 1st Cl. HMS Fox) GVF £190
       
  Transport Medal 1899 - 1902    
158 Clasp; South Africa 1899- 1902 (A.J. Humphreys)  3rd Officer, SS Lake Erie - Elder Dempster Company NEF £850
       
 

Queen’s South Africa Medal, 1899-1902

    
428 No clasp. (impressed Pte. W. Stophfoard. Ladismith T.G.)   Name scratched. Scarce NVF £200
  Note: Ladismith is a different town to Ladysmith.    
       
  China 1900    
161 No bar (W. J. Hard Ord. HMS Aurora)    
    AEF £260
  The Great War    
197 BWM (8379S C. Morgan Sto. RNR) GVF £20
       
449 A WW1 pair to a Tyneside (TZ) Naval Division Machine Gunner. G.A. Share, Able Seaman RNVR. British War Medal and Victory Medal (TZ 8906 G.A. Share, AB. RNVR)    
  George Albert, born 30 March 1897 Mexborough, Doncaster, Yorkshire. A miner at Manvers Main Colliery, Mexborough. A Primitive Methodist by faith. Enrolled Tyne RNVR 4 Dec. 1915. Qualified as a machine Gunner, and transferred to 63rd RND Bde. 189 Bde. M/G. Coy.  Wounded 14th April 1917 gunshot wounds to chin & chest - invalided home. Jan 1918 joined 213 M/G Coy. in France. Hospitalised March 1918, back to unit May. Demobilised January 1919. To Tyneside RNVR. With various copy papers.    
    NEF £125
       
505 Naval General Service 1915-62    
  EIIR with clasp Near East, (C/SSX.843872 J. Matthews, AB, RN). In box of issue. Hand writing on the box says "1956, medal for Diving Operations in Suez Canal, clearing sunken vessels after the Suez Canal Incident".    
  Born 9th January 193 at Mynnydd Islwyn, Monmouthshire. With handwritten note of his postings.    
  The Clearance Diving (CD) Branch was officially formed under Admiralty Fleet Order (AFO) 857/52 on 7 March 1952 although a training nucleus had been set up some 2 years earlier to take advantage of the few remaining men with wartime experience. These officers and ratings had, in the main, qualified as Shallow Water Divers trained to use the Sladen ‘Clammy Death’ diving dress and oxygen breathing apparatus. They were joined by other officers and ratings Qualified in Deep Diving (QDD).    
    NEF £195
       
214 clasp Persian Gulf 1909-14 (160421 A.Birch Sh. Std. HMS Philomel)

GVF

 £190
       
215 clasp Near East (D/JX 924896 R.J. Atkinson AB RN) EF £150
       
216 clasp Palestine 1945-48 (P/SSX 789765 E. Eames AB RN) NEF £190
       
217 clasp Malaya GVIR (CH/X 5367 G. T. Trott MN RN) NEF £170
       
218 clasp Malaya GVIR(D/JX 851409 J. Perry AB RN) VF £150
       
212 clasp Minesweeping 1945-51 (DJX157540 S. W. Partridge PO RN) GVF £220
       
  Campaign Service Medal 1962 -    
530 clasp Borneo (JX.864673 W.A. Smith Sails Mate  R.N) With handwritten notes of his postings from January 1949 to his discharge in 1969. Not entitled to LSGC.    
 

Sails Mate - A very unusual rank on a modern naval medal

 GVF £120
       
235 clasp Borneo (074658 M.N. Back M (E)2 RN)    
    NEF £100