Campaign Groups and Pairs 120
Pair: Chief Quarter Master J. Bew, Royal Navy
China 1857-60, no clasp, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (J. Bew. Chf. Qr. Mr. H.M. S. Victoria. 23 yrs.), good very fine (2)
£500-£700
Provenance: Colonel Murray Collection (L.S. & G.C. only; catalogue published, 1882); Jack Deacon Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002 (pair)
Jesse Bew was born in Plymouth, Devon in February 1824 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Cambridge in January 1841. Advanced to Ordinary Seaman in January 1846 and to Able Seaman one year later, he served aboard the Retribution in the Second China War and gained Petty Officer status with his appointment to Captain of the Maintop in the same ship in January 1859. Bew attained the rate of Chief Quarter-Master shortly before being pensioned ashore from the Victoria in May 1867, the same month that he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal.
Sold with copied research, including service record and entry from Colonel Murray’s published catalogue 121 Pair: Private J. McGill, 26th Foot
Abyssinia 1867 (5165. J.
Mc.Gill. 26th. Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (3165. Jas.
Mc.Gill, 26th. Foot.) edge bruising, very fine (2)
£260-£300
James McGill was born in Edinburgh on 30 March 1834 and attested for the 26th Regiment of Foot at Buttevant, co. Cork, on his fourteenth birthday, 30 March 1848. Appointed a Drummer on 27 November 1849, he served with the Regiment overseas in Gibraltar, Canada, Bermuda, India, and Abyssinia, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £5, on 25 July 1870. He was discharged on 29 March 1873, after 21 years’ man’s service.
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Eight: Ship’s Corporal George F. Lonnon, Royal Navy
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (G. F. Lonnon. A.B. H.M.S. “Shah”); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (G. F. Lonnon. A.B. H.M.S. “Invinvible”); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (G. D. Lonnon, Sh. Corpl., H.M.S. Forte.) note second initial but as per roll; 1914-15 Star (88649, G. F. Lonnon, Sh. Cpl. 1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (88649 G. F. Lonnon. Sh. Cpl. 1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (G. F. Lonnon, Sh. Corpl. 1st Cl., H.M.S. Penelope); Khedive’s Star 1882, the L.S. & G.C. and Egypt medals with pitting from star, otherwise nearly very fine or better and a rare group (8)
£1,800-£2,200
George F. Lonnon was born at Portsea, Hampshire, on 9 November 1859, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 27 November 1874. He served aboard Shah from September 1876 to October 1879, and was present aboard her in the action, with H.M. S. Amethyst, fought with the Peruvian rebel turret ship Huascar on 29 May 1877, and in South Africa in 1879. He served aboard Invincible from March 1882 to December 1885, including the bombardment of Alexandria on 11 July 1882. After further service in Asia, Hercules, Penelope, in which ship he received his L.S. & G.C. medal, and Victory I, he served aboard Forte from November 1895 to October 1897, including the operations against Benin City in 1897. He had been advanced to Ordinary Seaman in 1877, Able Seaman in 1878, Ship’s Corporal 2nd Class in 1886, and Ship’s Corporal 1st Class in 1888. Pensioned to Shore in 1897, he then served briefly in 1913 in Good Hope from 14 July to 10 August. He was recalled for service during the Great War, stationed at Victory I and aboard Hermione, and was invalided to Haslar Hospital on 3 March 1915. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.
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