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

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Cs. E. Cotman, Gun Room Stewd., H.M.S. Juno, 22 Yrs.), nearly extremely fine £120-140

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 E. Cotman was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in June 1873.

He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Contest in June 1846 and went on to witness active service in the Baltic and Crimea War aboard the Leopard, including the Sebastopol operations. Appointed a Captain’s Steward in the Simoom in November 1856, he was additionally present in the Second China War operations, being awarded a no clasp Medal. Cotman was finally discharged ashore as a Gun Room Steward in June 1873.