Pair: Master at Arms H. Copeland, Royal Navy, late Royal Marines

Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Mr. at Arms, H.M.S. Wellesley, 31 Yrs.), engraved naming, the first good very fine, the last with contact marks, about very fine (2) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Henry Copeland was born at Cranwell, Lincolnshire and originally enlisted in the Royal Marines in December 1828, aged 18 years. Discharged after several seagoing appointments as a Corporal in January 1851, he immediately transferred into the Royal Navy as a Ship’s Corporal and went on to witness active service aboard H.M.S. Cumberland in the Baltic operations of 1854. Copeland, who was advanced to Master at Arms in May 1858 and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in January 1860, was finally pensioned ashore in April 1864.