Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Naval Good Shooting Medal with Second Award Bar group of three awarded to Chief Petty Officer R. Evans, Royal Navy

British War Medal 1914-20 (181765 R. Evans. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (181765 Richard Evans, P.O., H.M.S. Drake.); Naval Good Shooting Medal, E.VII.R. (181765 R. Evans, P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Formidable. 1904 6 in. B.L.) with Second Award Bar ‘H.M.S. “Hindustan” 1914. 12” B.L.’, mounted as worn together with two related shooting awards, ‘The Whitehead Challenge Cup’, silver and enamels, hallmarks for Birmingham 1906, crossed revolver suspension from enamelled bar inscribed ‘Bisley’, enamelled top suspension bar inscribed ‘Navy’ and silver ribbon bar with enamelled wreath and date ‘1906’; and S.M.R.C. silver shooting medal, hallmarks for Birmingham 1942, reverse inscribed ‘Summer League 1942 12th Div. R. Evans. P.C.R.C.’, very fine and better (5) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The James Fox Collection of Naval Awards.

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Richard Evans was born in Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, on 2 February 1878, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 16 October 1894. He served in H.M.S. Formidable from 10 October 1901 to 14 August 1904, and was advanced Petty Officer First Class on 4 January 1903. He was awarded his Long Service ands Good Conduct Meal in 1910, before joining H.M.S. Hindustan on 17 February 1914, and was advanced Chief Petty Officer on 1 December 1914. He was shore discharged, on reduction of the Fleet, on 19 June 1922