Auction Catalogue

2 December 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 460

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£880

Four: Captain’s Coxswain T. J. Webber, Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Ts. J. Webber, Captns. Coxn. H.M.S. Fisgard 20 Yrs); Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed, toned, nearly extremely fine (4) £500-600

Thomas James Webber was born at Falmouth, Cornwall, on 1 February 1832, and entered the Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. William and Mary on 15 July 1846. He served as an Able Seaman aboard the Trafalgar at Sebastopol, and aboard the Russell in the Baltic. He served subsequently aboard the Vigilant and, from December 1859, in the Fisgard, continuously until his discharge, except for a period of nearly two years in 1860-61 when he was employed as a Rigger at the Woolwich Dockyard. He was discharged from Fisgard on 29 October 1870, having been recommended for his ‘Pension, Medal & Gratuity.’ Sold with copy service papers.