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Sold between 2 March & 1 December 2004

2 parts

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

Oliver Stirling Lee

Lot

№ 160

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£170

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (T. Morley, Torp. Artifr., H.M.S. Bacchante) edge bruising, very fine £120-140

Thomas (William) Morley was born at St. John’s, Lewes, Sussex in May 1851 and entered the Royal Navy as a Blacksmith in October 1875. He subsequently witnessed active service aboard H.M.S. Bacchante in the Burma operations of 1885-86 and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in January of the latter year. Morley was finally pensioned ashore as a Chief Armourer (Pensioner) in April 1905.