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Sold between 2 March & 1 December 2004

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Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee

Oliver Stirling Lee

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№ 6

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1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£800

Three: Captain’s Coxswain R. Triggs, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55,
unnamed as issued; Abyssinia 1867 (Cap. Coxn., H.M.S. Octavia); Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Captns. Coxn., H.M.S. Amethyst, 73-74), the third with minor official correction to rate, edge nicks, otherwise generally good very fine and a scarce combination of awards (3) £500-600

Reuben Triggs was born at Portsea, Hampshire in January 1838 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1853. His subsequent stints of active service comprised time aboard H.M.S. Vulture in the Baltic operations of 1854-55, service as a Captain’s Coxswain to Commodore 1st Class L. G. Heath, commanding officer of the Octavia, during the Abyssinia operations of 1867, and in a similar capacity to the captain of the Amethyst during the Ashantee operations of 1873-74. Pensioned ashore in March 1876, the same month in which he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal, Triggs rejoined as an Able Seaman (Pensioner) in May of the following year, but was “discharged dead” from the training ship Asia in September 1882.