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25 May 2022

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Lot

№ 510

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25 May 2022

Hammer Price:
£120

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Henry Houghton, Stoker, H.M.S. Asia.) contact marks and minor edge bruising, very fine £100-£140

Henry Houghton was born at Southwick, Hampshire, on 20 December 1852, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker Second Class in H.M.S. Asia on 23 April 1874. Advanced to Stoker in H.M.S. Favourite on 1 April 1975, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal prior to transferring to the Royal Navy Coast Guard Service as a Boatman on 10 November 1884. He was shore pensioned in March 1896.