Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Henry Ley, Mate, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Henry Ley, Mate); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, fitted with silver bar suspension, the first with contact marks and severe edge bruising by end of rank, otherwise nearly very fine (2)
£700-900

Henry Ley joined the navy as a Volunteer 1st Class aboard the Hyperion on 14 March 1828, aged 14 from Barnstaple. He served as Midshipman aboard Talavera from May to December 1836, when he joined Stag and, in that ship passed for Seamanship and received promotion to Mate, 18 February 1839. He passed for Mathematics in February 1840 and joined Vanguard as Mate on 22 April 1840, seeing service off the coast of Syria and at Acre. He was paid off from Vanguard in August 1843 and does not appear to have gone to sea again. He disappears from the Navy Lists in January 1850. Sold with research.