Three: Carpenter’s Mate J. E. Brown, Royal Navy

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Carps. Crew, H.M.S. Boadicea); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Shipwt., H.M.S. Turquoise); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Carpts. Mte., H.M.S. Boscawen), impressed naming, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally about very fine and a scarce combination of awards (3) £500-600

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 Edward Brown was born at Eastney, Hampshire in May 1859 and entered the Royal Navy as Carpenters Crew in February 1878. His subsequent stints of active service comprised time aboard H.M.S. Boadicea during the South Africa operations of 1879, when he was landed for service in the Naval Brigade, and in the Turquoise during the Burma operations of 1885-87. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February of the following year, Brown was pensioned ashore in February 1898.