Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain’s Coxswain T. J. Webber, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued, clasp loose; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Ts. J. Webber, Captns. Coxn. H.M.S. Fisgard 20 Yrs) official correction to second initial; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, toned, nearly extremely fine (4) £800-£1,000

Thomas James Webber was born at Falmouth, Cornwall, on 1 February 1832, and entered the Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. William and Mary on 15 July 1846. He served as an Able Seaman aboard the Trafalgar at Sebastopol, and aboard the Russell in the Baltic. He served subsequently aboard the Vigilant and, from December 1859, in the Fisgard, continuously until his discharge, except for a period of nearly two years in 1860-61 when he was employed as a Rigger at the Woolwich Dockyard. He was discharged from Fisgard on 29 October 1870, having been recommended for his ‘Pension, Medal & Gratuity.’