Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Ship’s Steward W. G. Jory, Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff (Wm. G. Jory.); China 1857-60, no clasp (Wm G. Jory.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (Wm. G. Jory.) all with similar contemporary engraved naming in upright serif capitals, the first with some graffiti in obverse field, all very polished, otherwise fine (3) £400-£500

William G. Jory was born in Stoke Damarel, Devonport on 20 June 1826. His first ship was Atholl a 6th Rate 28, in which he served as Ship's (or Paymaster's) Steward from 14 February 1851 to 4 August 1854. He entered Beagle on 5 August 1854 as Ship's Steward and ‘appeared’ on 4 September 1854, aged 28. He served in Beagle in the Crimea, at Sebastopol and in the Sea of Azoff. He was discharged from Beagle on 2 June 1856 to Agamemnon ‘for passage to England having served 5 years continuous service’. He joined Amethyst, a 6th Rate with 230 men, as a volunteer at Devonport on 1 August 1856, and saw service in China during 1857-58. He was discharged from her on 22 December 1860 to Wellesley, being by then 34 years old. His Third China War Medal was sent to him in Madagascar in October 1862, having joined her on 9 April 1861 as Ship's Steward. He never took a Continuous Service engagement but was finally discharged from Royal Adelaide on 19 July 1872, aged 46.

Sold with full resume of his service and confirmation of all medals and clasps.