Lot Archive

Lot

№ 280

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£100

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Geo. Spink, Torpo. Artfr., H.M.S. Cambridge), impressed naming, edge nicks, good very fine £80-100

George Spink was born in Walsall, Staffordshire in April 1854 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1869. His service record reveals that he served aboard H.M.S. Seagull between October 1872 and January 1874, a commission that embraced her time off the west coast of Africa during the Ashantee operations of 1873-74, so it is likely he was awarded the appropriate Medal. Spink, who was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February 1890, was pensioned ashore in April 1892.