Five: Chief Armourer C. Wingham, Royal Navy

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Armrs. Mte., H.M.S. Bacchante); 1914 Star (125029 Ch. Armr., Benbow Bttn., R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (125029 Ch. Amr., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Ch. Armr., H.M.S. Victory), impressed naming, contact marks and edge bruising, particularly to the first and last, otherwise generally very fine and a rare combination of awards (5) £350-400

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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Charles Wingham was born at Southsea, Hampshire in February 1862 and entered the Royal Navy as Armourers Crew in November 1883. He subsequently served as an Armourer’s Mate in H.M.S. Bacchante in the Irrawaddy Flotilla during the Burma operations of 1885-7, and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in April 1898. Having been pensioned ashore in March 1906, he was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities and landed in Belgium with the Benbow Battalion, Royal Naval Division in the same year. Wingham was subsequently employed in Victory IV for the remainder of the War and was demobilised in January 1919.