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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Hy. Bowden, P.O. 2nd Cl. H.M.S. Cambridge.) very fine £100-£140

Henry Bowden was born in 1860, at Charles, Plymouth, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable, on 12 January 1876. He was advanced to Able Seaman, H.M.S. Comus, on 1 December 1881, and Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Mariner, on 7 August 1886. He was appointed Petty Officer Second Class, H.M.S. Cambridge on 1 July 1889 and Petty Officer First Class on 2 May 1890. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1889. He was appointed Commissioned Gunner in December 1892, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable and H.M.S. Venerable until discharged generally unfit (neurasthenia) in June 1906.

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