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

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Wm. Alley, Band. Corpl., H.M.S. Duke of Wellington), impressed naming, edge nicks and polished, about very fine £80-100

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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William Alley was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire in March 1860 and entered the Royal Navy as a Domestic 2nd Class in March 1878. Advanced to Band Corporal in October 1889, he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in March of the following year and was pensioned ashore in September 1903, after brief service in the Royal Marine Band. Alley, who does not appear to have witnessed any active service, was briefly recalled in August 1914 but demobilised as ‘not required’ in the following month.