Five: Stoker Petty Officer F. W. Stevens, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (F. W. Stevens, Sto. H.M.S. Philomel.); 1914-15 Star (276320, F. W. Stevens, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (276320 F. W. Stevens, S.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (276320 F. W. Stevens. Sto. P.O., H.M.S. Leander.) contact marks, generally very fine and better (5) £240-£280

Frederick William Stevens was born in Kingstown, Dublin, on 3 November 1874, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker Second Class on 13 March 1894. He served in H.M.S. Philomel from 1 December 1894 to 17 March 1897, and was promoted Stoker on 1 August 1896. Advanced Stoker Petty Officer on 1 July 1906, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 5 May 1909. Admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth as a ‘dangerous lunatic’ on 31 March 1915, he was invalided out of the service to pension on 5 April of that year.