Auction Catalogue

3 December 2020

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 291

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3 December 2020

Hammer Price:
£260

Pair: Stoker Petty Officer 1st Class A. Skedgell, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (A. Skedgell, Sto., H.M.S. Phœbe.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (161715 Alfred Skedgell, Sto. P.O. 1Cl, H.M.S. Hyacinth.) light contact marks, very fine (2) £240-£280

Alfred Skedgell was born in Southmorton, Devon, on 1 July 1872 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 13 July 1891. Advanced Stoker on 1 January 1892, he was posted to H.M.S. Phœbe on 13 November 1895 and served in her during the Benin Operations, February to August 1897. Advanced Stoker Petty Officer on 1 July 1906, whilst serving in H.M.S. Hyacinth, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 2 August 1906, and was advanced Chief Stoker on 29 August 1908. He was shore pension on 1 July 1913, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on 3 August of that year. Recalled for service during the Great War, he was immediately discharged, medically unfit.