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

Five: Quartermaster Henry W. Blann, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860, these three all unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Qr. Mr. H.M.S. Nassau) engraved naming; Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (5) £300-350

Henry W. Blann was born at Selsea, Sussex, on 5 October 1837, and joined the Royal Navy on 17 July 1851 as a Boy 2nd Class. He served aboard Arethusa in the Baltic and the Crimea, and aboard Chesapeake during the operations in China. He was pensioned in June 1876, at which time he received his L.S. & G.C. medal and gratuity, and finally discharged to shore as Petty Officer 1st Class on 6 October 1876. Sold with copy service record and other research, together with an original portrait photograph believed to be of the recipient in old age.