A Collection of Medals to Offices and Ratings of H.M.S. Penelope

Three: Engine Room Artificer T. Morgan, Royal Navy

China 1857-60, no clasp (E.R.A., H.M.S. Odin), contemporary engraved naming; Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (E.R. Artfr., H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 73-74); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (E.R. Artfr., H.M.S. Penelope), generally good very fine (3) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Offices and Ratings of H.M.S. Penelope.

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Thomas Morgan was born in Greenwich in December 1836 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker in June 1859. He subsequently served in the same rate aboard H.M.S. Odin from September 1859 to August 1863, initially off China in the Opium War, and as an Engine Room Artificer in H.M.S. Rattlesnake from August 1869 to March 1874, latterly off the Gold Coast. Finally, in the period April to November 1882, he served in the Penelope off Egypt, and he was pensioned ashore in December of the same year; sold with a file of research, including copied service record.