Auction Catalogue

12 May 2015

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Lot

№ 533

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12 May 2015

Hammer Price:
£220

Pair: Petty Officer F. J. Drewell, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Lg. Sean., H.M.S. “Seahorse”); Khedive’s Star, 1882, unnamed, edge bruising, contact marks, good fine and better (2) £160-200

Egypt Medal, ex Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris (R.N.) Collection, B.D.W. 12 February 1997.

Frederick Drewell was born on 1 August 1858 in Finchley, Middlesex. He entered the service as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S.
Fisgard on 8 August 1873, then drafted to Boscawen (1873-75) where he was advanced to Boy 1st Class in September 1874, and subsequently served aboard Vestal (1875-78) where he was made an Ordinary Seaman in April 1877, and Able Seaman in October 1878. He joined the Special Service Steamer Seahorse where he served for the Egypt Campaign from 3 March 1881 until he purchased his discharge, for twelve pounds, on 9 April 1884. He had been advanced to Leading Seaman in April 1882 and to Petty Officer 1st Class in January 1884. He never completed his first ten year engagement and was therefore ineligible for a Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. With copied research.