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

№ 487 x

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£550

Three: Leading Seaman S. L. Evans, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (167411 A.B., H.M.S. Powerful); British War Medal 1914-20 (167411 L.S., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (167411 Lg. Sea., H.M.S. Victory), the first with minor official correction to surname, one or two edge bruises, minor contact wear, generally very fine (3) £500-600

Samuel Lindop Evans was born at Landport, Hampshire in January 1877 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1892. Landed with the Naval Brigade in South Africa during his subsequent appointment in H.M.S. Powerful, he was present at the defence of Ladysmith. Having then been advanced to Leading Seaman in June 1904, Evans was invalided from the service in July 1907. Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he served at H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth until being demobilised in July 1917. He had, meanwhile, been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in April of the same year; also see Lot 627 for his son’s Honours & Awards.