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

Pair: Chief Boatman in Charge G. Farrow, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Chf. Btmn. in Charge, H.M. Coast Gd., 32 Yrs.), edge nicks, good very fine (2) £200-250

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

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George Farrow joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 1st Class aboard H.M.S. Pelorus in August 1838, and was advanced to Able Seaman during the course of his service in the Baltic operations of 1854-55, when aboard the Edinburgh. Returning to the U.K. to take up appointment as a Boatman in May 1856, Farrow received his L.S. & G.C. Medal in May 1873, one of just 42 awards of the wide suspension variety to Coast Guard personnel. He was pensioned ashore in the same month.