Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 907

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£600

Five: Rigger Edward T. Ledger, Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, loose on ribbon; Baltic 1854-55; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Fatshan 1857, the second clasp loose on ribbon, these three all unnamed as issued; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated, 1860 to 1861 (Captn. F. Top, H.M.S. Niger); Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed, some contact marks and edge bruises, generally very fine or better (5) £550-650

Edward Thomas Ledger was born at Chatham, Kent, in June 1834, and entered the Navy aboard Britannia in July 1851. He served in that ship in the Crimea, as an Ordinary Seaman, and transferred to the Cuckoo for service in the Baltic, as an Able Seaman. He next served briefly in Trusty as Yeoman of Signals, and joined Niger in May 1856. In this ship he rose through the rates as Captain of the Mast, Ship’s Corporal, Coxswain of the Launch, and Captain of the Foretop. Whilst in this ship he served in China in 1857 and in New Zealand in 1860-61. He served in Cumberland from September 1861 until April 1863, as Boatswain’s Mate, after which he was a Rigger in the Dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham until his final discharge in January 1879. Sold with copied medal rolls and service record.