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4 & 5 March 2020

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№ 928 x

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5 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£320

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai (J. Cowling. A.B. H.M.S. “Agincourt”) pitting from star and light edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £240-£280

Provenance: Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996.

Joseph Cowling was born in Antony, Cornwall, on 25 March 1858. He first entered as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Implacable on 20 May 1873, and subsequently served aboard H.M. Ships Black Prince (1875-76) where he was advanced to Ord in March 1876, and to Able Seaman aboard Sealark in March 1877. He was drafted to Agincourt (1880-83) where he was advanced to Leading Seaman in April 1883 and to P.O. 2nd Class in October 1883, and then served aboard Dryad (1883-84), Calypso (1885-86) and Shannon (1886-88) where as a P.O. 1st Class he was Captain of the Forecastle. He joined H.M.S. Ready (1890-91) as a Chief Petty Officer. He was deprived of a Good Conduct Badge in 1888, and thus not recommended for the L.S. & G.C. medal. He died at his own home, whilst on the books of Vivid I, on 17 March 1894, from exhaustion following rheumatic fever.