Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Vice-Admiral G. Le G. Bowyear, C.B., Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (G. L. Bowyear, Commander, Vengeance) contemporary engraved naming, clasp loose as issued; Legion of Honour, Knight’s breast badge, silver and enamels, gold centres, repair to enamel of one reverse arm; Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamels, repair and enamel damage to Crescent suspension; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, generally very fine (4) £350-400

C.B. London Gazette 2 June 1869.

George Le Geyt Bowyear entered the Royal Navy in December 1830, being promoted Lieutenant in April 1840, and Commander in September 1851. As Second-Captain, from January 1853 until the spring of 1855, of the Vengeance 84, Bowyear was employed in the Mediterranean and also in the Black Sea, where he was present at the attack on the sea defences of Sebastopol, 17 October 1854. He was next appointed to the Vulcan, which vessel, employed in bringing troops and invalids home from the Crimea, he commanded until May 1856, when he was promoted to Captain. Amongst his subsequent appointments, Bowyear was Flag Captain at Portsmouth, and at the time of his retirement in September 1870, he was Captain in charge of Naval establishments at Bermuda. He became retired Rear-Admiral in June 1874, and retired Vice-Admiral in February 1879. Admiral Bowyear died at St Helier, Jersey, on 14 February 1903.