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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (H. E. Sergheraert. Ship’s Steward H.M.S. Revenge.) impressed naming, some contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £100-£120

Henry Edward Sergheraert was born at New Passage, Devon, on 4 September 1848, and entered the Navy as a Ship’s Steward’s Assistant aboard H.M.S. Pert on 1 January 1873, advancing to Ship’s Steward 3rd Class the following May. He was promoted to Ship’s Steward 2nd Class in September 1878, and to Ship’s Steward 1st Class in June 1882. He was awarded an undated Egypt Medal for services in H.M.S. Orontes, and was shore pensioned from H.M.S. Ganges on 24 September 1886.

Sold with copied record of service.