Pair: Coopers Crew T. Stephens, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Cooprs. Crew, H.M.S. Inconstant); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Gambia 1894 (Cooper’s Crew, H.M.S. Raleigh), the first with contact marks and edge bruising, about very fine, the last with slightly bent suspension post and edge bruising, otherwise good very fine (2) £220-250

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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Thomas Stephens was born in Plymouth in October 1852 and entered the Royal Navy as a Cooper in August 1878. His subsequent stints of active service comprised time aboard H.M.S. Inconstant during the Egypt operations of 1882, and in the Raleigh in the operations off, and on, the west coast of Africa in 1894, when he was landed with the Naval Brigade in Gambia for the punitive expedition against Chief Fodi Selah. Stephens was pensioned ashore in October 1898.