The Collection of Medals formed by the late Jack Deacon

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (George Dowrick, A.B., H.M. Brig Linnet, 25 Yrs.), edge nicks and minor contact wear, otherwise very fine £120-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Jack Deacon.

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George Dowrick was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February 1851.

He was born at St. Just, Cornwall and joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the brig H.M.S. Kingfisher in December 1825, a rate that would suggest he had gained at least two years experience of the sea elsewhere, probably as a fishing fleet man. His subsequent career was spent entirely aboard similar 8-gun brigs, all of which operated in home waters out of Falmouth, and he was discharged ashore from the Linnet in early 1851. Eight years later, however, he rejoined as a ‘Pensioner’ with the rate of Able Seaman aboard the Asia, coming ashore for a final time in January 1862.