Five: Warrant Armourer F. Andrews, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (Blksth., H.M.S. Turquoise); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Blacksmith, H.M.S. Turquoise); British War Medal 1914-20 (Wt. Arm., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Actg. Ch. Armr., H.M.S. Sirius), impressed naming; Khedive’s Star 1884-6, mounted as worn, contact marks, particularly to the first two, otherwise generally about very fine or better 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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Frederick Andrews was born at Gosport, Hampshire in December 1862 and entered the Royal Navy as a Blacksmith in May 1884. He subsequently witnessed active service aboard H.M.S. Turquoise in the Egypt operations of 1882, and again during the Burma operations of 1885-87, and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in June 1894. Pensioned ashore in April 1911, Andrews was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 and served for the remainder of the War at Vernon, gaining advancement to Warrant Armourer in June 1917. He was demobilised in 1919, aged 57 years.