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

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Joh. Freelove, Leadg. Stor., H.M.S. Reserve, 20 Yrs.), engraved naming, the ‘R’ of Reserve a little rubbed, edge nicks, good very fine £250-300

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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Ex Douglas-Morris collection, Part I, 16 October 1996 (Lot 538).

John Freelove was born at Hastings, Sussex in May 1827 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker in December 1852. He subsequently witnessed active service aboard H.M.S. Odin in the Baltic operations of 1854, including the bombardment of Bomarsund, and afterwards off the Crimea in 1855, including the bombardment of the forts at Kinburn. He was pensioned ashore in March 1873, in which month he was also awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal.