Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (W. H. Venning, S.B. Steward, H.M.S. Warspite.) impressed naming, good very fine £80-£100

William Henry Venning was born in Limehouse, London, on 22 September 1855. He joined the Royal Navy as Boy 1st Class on 1 January 1873 and was raised Sick Berth Attendant aboard the depot ship Royal Adelaide on 28 July 1881. Advanced Sick Berth Steward 2nd Class aboard Reindeer 24 April 1885, and Sick Berth Steward at Pembroke Dock 1 July 1889, he was awarded the LS & GC Medal in September 1894.