Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Perak (W. Winsborough, Boy 1 Cl., H.M.S. Hart) contact marks, nearly very fine £120-140

74 ‘Perak’ clasps to H.M.S. Hart.

William Winsborough was born in 1856 at Tiverton, Devon and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in April 1872 aboard H.M.S. Implacable. He attained the rank of Petty Officer in 1882 and the following year transferred to the Coast Guard as a Boatman. In 1890 he was promoted to Commissioned Boatman and was Pensioned in 1897.