Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Gentle Dawe. A.B. (Pensioner) H.M.S. Indus) impressed naming, good very fine £100-£140

O. Stirling Lee Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2005.

Gentle Dawe was born in Buckland, Devon, in 1836. He joined the Royal Navy as a 2nd Class Ordinary Seaman in September 1854. Dawe subsequently witnessed active service with H.M.S. Cossack in the Baltic operations of 1855 and was pensioned ashore as a Petty Officer 2nd Class in December 1872. Rejoining as an Able Seaman (Pensioner) in March 1876, he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. in October 1881, and was once more pensioned ashore in March 1882.

Sold with copied service papers.