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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (F. Moxon, C.P.O., H.M.S. Excellent.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £100-£140

Fred Moxon was born in Ackworth, Yorkshire, on 11 December 1863 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 10 July 1879. Advanced Chief Petty Officer on 9 March 1891 he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 12 April 1892, and was shore pensioned on 15 December 1901 from H.M.S. Excellent. Joining the Royal Fleet Reserve, he served during the Great War, and was shore demobilised on 31 July 1919.