Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Hy. Stevens, Chf. Boatn., H.M. Coast Gd, 32 Yrs.) engraved naming, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise very fine and scarce £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Ex Douglas-Morris collection, Part II, 12 February 1997 (Lot 512).

A little over 40 “wide suspension” L.S. & G.C. Medals were awarded to the Coast Guard.

Henry Stevens was born at Cawsand, Cornwall in April 1821 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in December 1836. He subsequently witnessed active service as a Petty Officer 1st Class aboard H.M.S. Duke of Wellington in the Baltic operations of 1854-55, including the bombardment of Sveaborg, following which he transferred to H.M. Coast Guard. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in March 1874, Stevens was pensioned ashore in the following month.