Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Navarino (John Stainer.) a few marks, otherwise better then very fine £1,200-£1,500

Provenance: Spink, February 1979.

John Stainer is confirmed on the rolls as a Landsman aboard H.M.S. Talbot. He was reported in the newspapers as the last survivor of the battle of Navarino when he died at Binstead, Ryde, Isle of Wight, on 3 March 1907, aged 99. The National Archives have a photograph of Stainer wearing his Navarino medal.