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№ 531

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21 July 2021

Hammer Price:
£150

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Wm. Streeting, Bandsman, H.M.S. Wildfire.) nearly extremely fine £100-£140

William Streeting was born in Sheerness, Kent, on 6 January 1866 and entered naval service from the Greenwich School as a Band Boy on 16 July 1881. He served in H.M.S. Wildfire I between May 1890 and January 1904, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 2 August 1894. He was shore pensioned on 21 January 1904, and was briefly recalled for War service from 2 August to 19 October 1914.