Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Seaman J. Weeks, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Gemaizah 1888 (J. Weeks, Lg. Sean., H.M.S. Racer); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Jas. Weeks, Ldg: Seaman, H.M.S. Shannon.); Khedive’s Star, undated, unnamed as issued, pitting overall, therefore nearly very fine (3) £320-£360

James Weeks was born in Devon on 4 December 1860 and entered naval service on 1 May 1877 as a Boy 2nd Class. Promoted Leading Seaman on 27 January 1888, he served in H.M.S. Racer, to which he had been drafted in April 1885, until 25 February 1889. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 24 April 1890, he was pensioned to shore on 6 January 1899. While he re-entered the Navy for war service in 1914, he was immediately discharged as medically unfit.