Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Five: Master at Arms W. Jordan, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (William Jordan); Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Mr. at Arms, H.M.S. Exmouth, 22 Yrs.); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, edge bruising and minor contact wear, generally good very fine (5) £550-650

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Jack Deacon.

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William Jordan was born in Devonport in April 1819 and joined the Royal Navy as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Powerful in May 1839. Quickly witnessing active service in the same ship in the Syria operations of 1840, he also saw action in the Crimea, including the Sebastopol operations and Inkermann, when rated as a Ship’s Corporal in the Britannia. Jordan was advanced to Master at Arms aboard the Ajax in October 1856 and was finally pensioned ashore from the Exmouth in May 1861, in which year he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal.