Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Four: Chief Petty Officer A. Tett, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (A.B., H.M.S. Woodlark); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (A.B., H.M.S. Woodlark); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (A.B., H.M.S. Woodlark), impressed naming; Khedive’s Star 1884, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine or better and a very rare run of awards for service in the same ship

Three: Chief Petty Officer W. Tett, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (180404 P.O. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (180404 C.P.O., R.N.), good very fine (7)
£350-400

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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Abraham Tett was born at St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey in March 1847 and entered the Royal Navy as an Able Seaman in December 1875. In his subsequent commission aboard H.M.S. Woodlark between February 1884 and March 1887, he received all of his awards, the first two of them for service off Egypt in 1884, the third - his L.S. & G.C. Medal - in March 1885, and the last for services on the Irrawaddy during the Second Burma War. He was finally pensioned ashore as a Chief Petty Officer in December 1895.