Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Petty Officer (Rigger) 1st Class H. G. Staples, Royal Navy - who was awarded the R.V.M. for service aboard the Royal Yacht Osborne

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Perak (A.B., H.M.S. Ringdove); Royal Victorian Medal, V.R., bronze, unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R. P.O. (Rig.) 1st Cl. H.M.R.Y. Osborne) second with contact marks, very fine and better (3) £550-650

Petty Officer Rigger 1st Class H. Staples, H.M.Y. Osborne, was awarded the R.V.M. in bronze in August 1901.