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17 August 2021

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№ 585

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17 August 2021

Hammer Price:
£120

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (A. J. Eades, Sh: Corpl. 1st. Cl: H.M.S. Hibernia.) good very fine £100-£140

Alfred James Eades was born in Stepney, London, on 21 October 1860 and joined the Royal Navy as a Ship’s Corporal Second Class on 15 December 1886, having had prior service in Her Majesty’s Forces. He entered H.M.S. Hibernia on 1 February 1888, was promoted Ship’s Corporal First Class on 15 December of that year, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 5 May 1890. He was invalided out of the service to pension on 7 April 1898.