Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Boatswain’s Mate F. Manning, Royal Navy

Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, bronze; Coronation 1902, bronze; Coronation 1911; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Qr. Mr., H.M.Y. Victoria & Albert), impressed naming, cleaned, otherwise nearly very fine or better (4) £250-300

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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Ex Douglas-Morris collection, Part II, 12 February 1997 (Lot 564).

Frederick Manning was born at Tiverton, Devon in January 1850 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1868. Remarkably, having joined the royal yacht Victoria & Albert as a Keeper of the Barge in September 1874, he went on to serve aboard her for nearly 20 years, finally being pensioned ashore as a Chief Boatswain’s Mate in October 1893. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in the interim, in January 1880, and the Jubilee Medal in 1887, his later awards remain unconfirmed, but it seems reasonable to contend that a with man with such long “royal service” was retained by the Queen and her household on, or soon after his retirement.