Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (S. Childs, Carpr., R.N., H.M.S. Euphrates) good very fine £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Samuel Childs was born at Portsea, Hampshire in October 1837 and entered the Royal Navy as a Shipwright in October 1861. Appointed to the rate of Carpenter, R.N. in January 1873, he went on to witness active service aboard H.M.S. Euphrates during the Egypt operations of 1882 and was pensioned ashore in October 1888. Childs died at his residence in Portsmouth in April 1896.