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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Saml. Bow, A.B. H.M.S. Undaunted.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £100-£140

Samuel Bow was born in Tamerton Foliot, Devon, on 20 February 1861 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Implacable on 27 July 1876. He was advanced to Able Seaman in H.M.S. Lion,on 1 July 1883, and was appointed to be a Naval Diver in H.M.S. Defiance on 30 September 1888. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 20 August 1890, and was shore pensioned in February 1899. His service record notes he was called up for service in August 1914 but was classified ‘medically unfit’ for service.

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