Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Ordinary Seaman William Pearman, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Azoff, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, pierced with ring suspension as issued; Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (Successful) (William Pearman, C.G. 9. April, 1870) light contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £500-700

R.H.S. Case No. 18,494: ‘Saved George Denby from an attempted suicide off the Admiralty Pier, Dover, 9 April 1870. William Pearman, Coast Guard, Dover, jumped from Admiralty Pier and supported him until a boat arrived.’

William Pearman was born at Brockhurst, Gosport, Hampshire, and joined the Royal Navy aboard H.M.S. Princess Royal on 15 November 1853. He served in this ship in the Baltic and in the Crimea, but was lent for service in the Tender Moslem during the Azoff operations.