Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Chief Petty Officer E. W. L. Lloyd, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Alexandria 11th July, Suakin 1884 (E. W. L. Lloyd. A.B. H.M.S. “Decoy.”); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, pitting from Star, nearly very fine (2) £260-£300

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Egypt Medals to the Royal Navy.

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Approximately 66 medals with clasp Alexandria 11 July awarded to H.M.S. Decoy.

Ernest Williamson Long Lloyd was born in Fordham, Cambridgeshire, on 27 July 1862 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 31 August 1877. He served in H.M.S. Decoy from 12 November 1881 to 21 January 1885, being promoted Able Seaman on 23 March 1882, and saw active service in this ship in both the Egyptian campaign of 1882, and the Sudanese campaign of 1884. Promoted Leading Seaman on 1 March 1887, and Petty Officer Second Class on 1 April 1889, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 5 November 1890, whilst serving in H.M.S. Excellent. He was further promoted Petty Officer First Class on 17 June 1891, and then (after a brief spell with the Royal Fleet Reserve in 1903) Chief Petty Officer on 18 March 1906, finally being shore pensioned on 15 October 1908.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.