Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Admiral’s Coxswain C. H. Isaac, Royal Navy

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Chas. Isaacs. [sic] Ordy. “Contest”); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Chas H. Isaac. Adml Cox. H.M.S. Bellerophon) engraved naming, generally very fine (3) £400-£500

Approximately 107 ‘Pegu’ clasps awarded to H.M.S. Contest.

Charles Henry Isaac/Isaacs was born in Titchfield, Southampton, Hampshire, in August 1835. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in April 1848. Isaac served with H.M.S. Contest between December 1849 and April 1853, and then served as an Able Seaman with H.M.S. Duke of Wellington in the Baltic. Isaac advanced to Admiral’s Coxswain, and served with H.M.S. Zealous from November 1869 to April 1873. He advanced to Chief Petty Officer the same year, before reverting to Able Seaman and being Shore Pensioned at his own request in May 1878. Isaac was subsequently employed as a Lighter Keeper in the Portsea Dock Yard.

Sold with copied service papers.