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

Six: Chief Yeoman of the Signals C. H. Spence, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; New Zealand 1845-1866, reverse dated 1860-1861 (Yeon. Signals, H.M.S. Iris); Abyssinia 1867-68 (Chf. Yeo. Signs., H.M.S. Octavia); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Chf. Yeo. Sig., H.M.S. Zealous, 20 Yrs.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, the first two with contact wear, about very fine, the remainder good very fine (6) £1000-1200

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

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Ex Douglas-Morris Collection.

Charles H. Spence was born at Westminster, London in October 1834 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Persian in January 1851. Drafted to the St. Jean d’Acre in April 1853, and advanced to Ordinary Seaman in August 1854, he witnessed active service in the Baltic and the Crimea War, including the Sebastopol operations. Spence was appointed Yeoman of the Signals aboard the Iris in late 1856, in which ship he participated in the New Zealand operations of 1860-61, and further advanced to Chief Yeoman of the Signals aboard the Octavia in October 1867, at the time of his participation in the Abyssinia Expedition. Pensioned ashore from the Zealous in April 1873, he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal in the same month.