Five: Leading Seaman Philip Hendy, Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued, clasp loose on ribbon; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued; Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (A.B. Seaman, P. Hendy, Royal Navy.) Canadian style impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, fitted with Crimea suspension, edge bruising, otherwise very fine or better (5) £2,000-£2,600

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2015 (Turkish Crimea since added to complete group).

Philip Hendy was born in Callington, Cornwall in June 1835. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 22 April 1850. He served on H.M.S. Vengeance, July 1851-April 1855, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in November 1853 and Ordinary Seaman in April 1855 (Crimea medal with clasp). He next served on H.M.S. Hastings, April 1855-May 1856 (Baltic medal) and then as an Able Seaman on H.M.S. Esk, June 1856-June 1861 (China medal with Canton clasp). Service in H.M. Ships Pantaloon and Indus followed, before service in H.M.S. Aurora, November 1863-June 1866 (Canada G.S. - issued 1911) being advanced to Leading Seaman in July 1864. Hendy was discharged to shore as medically unfit in April 1894. With copied service papers and medal roll extracts.