Orders, Decorations and Medals

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Edwin Moore, Chf. Btmn., H.M.C. Guard 29 Yrs.) engraved naming, scarce variety with years of service on edge, nearly extremely fine £250-350

Edwin Moore was born on 16 April 1826, in the coastal village of Stoke in Devonshire. On 14 May 1840 he entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Rodney. Moore was appointed a Boy 1st Class in August 1842 and remained aboard the Rodney until October 1843. During his service aboard the vessel, he took part in the bombardment of Alexandria on 4 November 1840 and was subsequently awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp, ‘Syria’. Moore was appointed an Able Seaman when on the Endymion in October 1845 and was promoted to Able Seaman on the same ship in January 1847. He then served on H.M.S. Hastings as an Able Seaman in May 1848 and Philomel in August 1853, being advanced to Leading Seaman soon after joining the latter. He served on Philomel until February 1856, after which he joined the Satallite as an Able Seaman in October the same year. He was again appointed Leading Seaman in November 1856. Moore remained with the Satellite until February 1861 when he was transferred to the Coast Guard as a Boatman. The 1861 Census reveals he was serving at St. Alban’s Head, near Worth Maltravers, Dorset. He was appointed a Commissioned Boatman in August 1866 and Chief Boatman in February 1870, serving variously at St. George, Studland Bay, Fowey, and Porthpean. He was pensioned off from Achilles on 22 September 1876, and was subsequently awarded the Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. Medal. Continuing to live at Porthpean, near St. Austell, Cornwall, with his wife and children, he died in the early 1890’s. With copied service papers and census extracts.