Pair: Leading Seaman J. Pyle, Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Azoff (H.M.S. Agamemnon), contemporary impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, edge nicks, very fine and better (2) £300-350

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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James Pyle was born at Sheerness, Kent in November 1827 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in July 1845. During the course of his subsequent commission aboard H.M.S. Agamemnon from December 1852 to July 1856, he was loaned to the Beagle and witnessed active service in the Black Sea and Sea of Azoff, in addition to the operations before Sebastopol. His Crimea Medal is impressed in the style common to those found to Agamemnon men, it being believed that their captain, Sir Thomas Pasley, paid for their awards to be inscribed. Pile was advanced to Leading Seaman in August 1856 and was pensioned ashore in January 1860.