Auction Catalogue

6 & 7 December 2017

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 1095

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7 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£80

Three: Chief Armourer J. C. T. Ferguson, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (147120 J. C. T. Ferguson. Ch. Amr. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (147120 J. C. T. Ferguson Chief Armourer, H.M.S. Tamar) good very fine (3) £70-90

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2010.

James Camble Trewyn Ferguson was born at Boscastle, Cornwall, on 3 June 1868, and joined the Royal Navy as Armourer’s Crew on 13 November 1888. He was promoted Armourer’s Mate on 9 March 1891; Armourer on 23 February 1897; and Chief Armourer on 6 October 1901. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal whilst serving in H.M.S. Tamar on 23 April 1914, and was invalided out suffering from osteo-arthritis on 28 August 1918 after almost 30 years’ service.