Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Able Seaman P. Monahan, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (Ord., H.M.S. Alexandra); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 3 clasps, Gambia 1894, Benin River 1894, Brass River 1895 (A.B., H.M.S. Widgeon); Khedive’s Star 1882, contact marks, about very fine and better, the second rare (3) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Just five R.N. officers, 28 seamen and marines received the East and West Africa 1887-1900 with the above described multi-clasp entitlement.

Patrick Monahan was born at St. Mark’s, Dublin in August 1864 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1880. His subsequent stints of active service comprised time aboard H.M.S. Alexandra during the Egypt operations of 1882, including the bombardment of Alexandria, and as a member of the Naval Brigade drawn from the ship’s company of the Widgeon in the Gambia 1894, Benin River 1894 and Brass River 1895 operations, the latter all confirmed in ADM 171/46f 63/79/93. Monahan was pensioned ashore in October 1903.