Orders, Decorations and Medals

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Hy. Stevens, Chf. Boatn., H.M. Coast Gd. 32 Yrs.) engraved naming, contact marks and slight edge bruising, very fine £350-400

Ex Douglas-Morris collection, Part II, 12 February 1997 and D.N.W. 2 March 2005.

A little over 40 “wide suspension” L.S. & G.C. Medals were awarded to the Coast Guard.

Henry Stevens was born at Cawsand, Cornwall in April 1821 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in December 1836. He subsequently witnessed active service as a Petty Officer 1st Class aboard H.M.S. Duke of Wellington in the Baltic operations of 1854-55, including the bombardment of Sveaborg, following which he transferred to H.M. Coast Guard. Stevens was promoted to Commissioned Boatman in June 1857 and Chief Boatman in January 1866. Between 1868 and 1874 he was serving at Portland, Dorset. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in March 1874, Stevens was pensioned ashore in the following month. With copied service details.