Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Armourer S. Pugsley, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (110472 S. Pugsley, Ch. Ar. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (110472 S. Pugsley, Ch. Amr. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Saml Pugsley, Ch. Armr.. H.M.S. Cambridge) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £140-£180

Samuel Puglsey, from Plymouth Devon, was born on 30 January 1860. Enlisting in the Royal Navy on 21 October 1879, he was promoted Chief Armourer on 5 January 1892, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 27 October 1892. Pensioned on 30 January 1900, he re-entered the service on 31 December 1902. He served at the start of the Great War in H.M.S. Caesar, which covered the passage of the British Expeditionary Force in September 1914, before being demobilised on 11 May 1916.