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

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (G. S. Stainer, Nl. Schoolmr., H.M.S. Topaze), engraved naming, fitted with riband buckle, good very fine £120-140

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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George Stephen Stainer was born at Swanage, Dorset in March 1843 and entered the Royal Navy as a Naval Schoolmaster 3rd Class in April 1864. In common with those similarly employed, his role was to teach members of the lower deck, and to that end he enjoyed a number of seagoing appointments over the coming years, being awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in June 1875 and advanced to Head Naval Schoolmaster in December 1879. His final appointment appears to have been at the R.M. depot at Walmer in the early 1890s and he disappears from the Navy List by April 1894.