Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (R. Manley. Stoker. H.M.S. “Tamar”.) nearly extremely fine £260-300

Richard Manley was born at Redruth, Cornwall, on 11 October 1843, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 15 June 1866, serving in H.M.S. Indus. He moved to H.M.S. Satellite on 2 November 1866, and, having been advanced to Stoker on 24 December of that year, took part in the Abyssinian campaign (entitled to Medal). He transferred to H.M.S. Cambridge on 2 December 1870, and qualified as a Stoker Mechanic on 2 May 1871. He joined H.M.S. Tamar as a Leading Stoker on 4 October 1876, and served during operations off South Africa before being invalided from the Ship and the Royal Navy on 5 March 1880. He re-entered the service on 12 May 1885, and continued to serve until he finally left at his own request on 27 September 1899, having received his Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.