Five: Painter First Class A. H. Stephens, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Melita during the Dongolla campaign in 1896, and in H.M.S. Centurion at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916

1914-15 Star (340155. A. H. Stephens. Ptr.1., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (340155 A. H. Stephens. Ptr. 1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (340155. A. H. Stephens, Painter 1Cl, H.M.S. Leviathan.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (A. H. Stephens Pntr. 2nd. Cl. H.M.S. Melita. 1896.) contemporarily engraved naming, light contact marks, especially to LS&GC, generally good very fine (5) £400-£500

For the Military operations in connection with the re-conquest of the Sudan, only two of Her Majesty’s Ships - Scout and Melita - were ordered into the operational zone. Their ships’ companies earned the Khedive’s Sudan Medal, without clasp, after at first being refused it, 139 medals being given to H.M.S. Melita, and 149 to H.M.S. Scout. Medals to Melita were awarded unnamed; those to H.M.S. Scout were named up on the initiative of Scout’s Captain.

Albert Henry Stephens was born in Plymouth on 20 September 1869 and joined the Royal Nay as a Painter Second Class on 6 June 1894. He served in H.M.S. Melita from 1 October 1895 to 14 October 1898, seeing active service during the Dongolla campaign.

Advanced Painter First Class on 29 August 1900, Stephens was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 7 July 1909, and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Centurion from the outbreak of War to 26 June 1917, and was present at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. He was shore invalided suffering from heart disease on 13 February 1918 and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

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