Five: Acting Chief Petty Officer J. E. Hutchings, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (175208 A-B: J. E. Hutchings, H.M.S. Blonde); 1914-15 Star (175208, J. E. Hutchings, P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (175208 J. E. Hutchings. Act. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (175208 J. E. Hutchings. P.O., H.M.S. Argyll.) mounted for display, contact marks, very fine (5) £400-£500

281 clasps for Sierra Leone to the Royal Navy, including 124 to H.M.S. Blonde.

John Edwin Hutchings was born at Padstow, Cornwall, on 28 February 1878, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Ganges on 25 July 1893. He joined Blonde as a Boy 1st Class on 1 November 1895, advancing in that ship to Ordinary Seaman in February 1896 and to Able Seaman in January 1897. He advanced to Leading Seaman in February 1901, Petty Officer 2 in August 1901, Petty Officer 1 in October 1905, received his L.S. & G.C. medal aboard Argyll in March 1911, and advanced to Acting Chief Petty Officer in January 1918. He joined the R.F.R. Devonport on 28 February 1918 and was confirmed as Chief Petty Officer on 2 June 1919. His last ship was Impregnable from which he was shore pensioned on 7 March 1922. He died at Truro, Cornwall, on 20 May 1932.

Sold with copied research including record of service, medal rolls and photograph of Blonde.