Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Pair: Ordinary Seaman A. Ford, Royal Navy
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Alfred Ford), official corrections; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued, very fine

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R. narrow suspension (H. F. J. Ford. Qr. Mr. H.M.S. Crocodile) impressed naming, good very fine (3) £600-£800

Alfred Ford served as an Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Bellerophon during the operations on and off the coast of Syria.

Henry Frederick James Ford was born in Gosport on 3 December 1851, entering naval service as an Able Seaman on 3 December 1869. He was promoted Captain’s Coxswain in H.M.S. Cockalice on 6 March 1877, having served in her from the beginning of that month. He was granted his L.S. & G.C. on 3 June 1880, while serving in H.M.S. Crocodile, in which he served between 2 August 1879 and 1 April 1880. He was pensioned to shore on 9 December 1889, from H.M.S. Excellent, in whose books he was borne from 7 January 1886.