Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Saml. Bow, A.B. H.M.S. Undaunted.) good very fine £100-£140

Samuel Bow was born in Tamerton Foliot, Devon, on 20 February 1861 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 27 July 1876. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in August 1890, he was shire pensioned in February 1889. His service record notes he was ‘medically unfit’ for service in 1914.