Auction Catalogue

27 June 2002

Starting at 10:00 AM

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

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

Lot

№ 1053

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27 June 2002

Hammer Price:
£400

Four: Ship’s Cook S. Fairhead, Royal Navy

China 1857-60
, no clasp, unnamed as issued; Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866, a later unnamed specimen; Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Ship’s Cook, H.M.S. Barracouta, 73-74); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Ship’s Cook, H.M.S. Barracouta, 20 Yrs.), the first with repaired suspension and all with contact wear and edge bruising, good fine (excepting the later specimen) (4) £250-300

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

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Stephen Fairhead was born at Ashbey, Norfolk in August 1835 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 1st Class in February 1854. Joining H.M.S. Retribution as a Stoker in July 1856, he went on to witness active service in the Second China War and, as a Ship’s Cook in the Duncan, off Canada during the Fenian troubles of 1866. And in his final seagoing appointment, the Barracouta, between March 1873 and May 1874, he served off the West Coast of Africa during the Ashantee operations. Fairhead was pensioned ashore on his return to the U.K., at which time he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal, but he never claimed his Canada General Service Medal when the appropriate authority was issued in January 1899.