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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (C. C. Tregilgas, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Vivid.) impressed naming, polished to high relief, good fine, the reverse better £80-£100

Charles Curnow Tregilgas was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, on 31 March 1864. He joined the Royal Navy at Devonport as a Boy Second Class on 30 January 1880 and served aboard a wide variety of ships including Grafton, Cambridge and Defiance. Advanced Petty Officer First Class aboard the gunboat Plover 11 December 1894, he was shore pensioned in 1903 and immediately joined the Royal Fleet Reserve. Remaining in service during the Great War, Tregilgas joined the M.F.A. Heroic from 16 December 1914 to 9 August 1916, before seeing out the remainder of hostilities at Devonport naval barracks.