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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Wm. Westlake, P.O. 1st Cl., H.M.S. Warspite.) about extremely fine £100-£140

William Westlake was born in Antony, Cornwall, on 1 December 1857 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 22 January 1874. Advanced Petty Officer First Class on 4 February 1890, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 22 April 1892, and was shore pensioned on 21 March 1903.