Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Cs E. Cotman Gun Room Stewd HMS Juno 22 Yrs) good very fine £500-£700

K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996.

Charles E. Cotman joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1846, and went on to witness active service in the Baltic and Crimea War aboard the Leopard, including the Sebastopol operations. Appointed a Captain’s Steward in the Simoom in November 1856, he was additionally present in the Second China War operations, being awarded a no clasp Medal. Cotman was finally discharged ashore as a Gun Room Steward in June 1873, and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in the same month.

Sold with copied service papers.