Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Brass River 1895 (G. Adams, Qd. Sign, H.M.S. Thrush.) good very fine £260-300

Provenance: DNW, June 2012.

George Adams was born in Lambeth, Surrey, in May 1874. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. Impregnable, October 1889 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in October the following year. He was promoted to Signalman when serving with the Boadicea in May 1892 and a Qualified Signalman when serving with the Grafton in November 1894. Pensioned in February 1903, he returned to service as a Signalman based at Victory I during the Great War, August 1914-May 1919.