Family Group:

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Geo Cummins Capns. Coxn. H.M.S. Spartan.) engraved naming, with top silver brooch bar, edge bruising, good very fine

Pair: Warrant Writer W. G. Cummins, Royal Navy
British War Medal 1914-20 (Wt. Wr. W. G. Cummins R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (174093 W. G. Cummins, Ch. Writer, H.M.S. Victory.) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £180-£220

George Cummins was born in Loango in West Africa on 25 January 1840. He joined the Royal Navy on 8 June 1858 as Ordinary Seaman aboard the guard ship Wellesley at Chatham, and was raised Captain’s Coxswain aboard the clipper ship St Vincent on 31 December 1866. Transferred to Spartan, Duke of Wellington and Repulse, Cummins was shore pensioned on 21 March 1872, his character described as ‘fair’.

William George Cummins was born in Fareham, Hampshire, on 24 February 1878 and joined the Royal Navy from school as Boy Writer on 29 June 1893. Raised Chief Writer aboard the newly commissioned battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought on 24 February 1908, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in August 1911 and served throughout the Great War at the naval barracks in Gibraltar. Advanced Warrant Writer in 1915, he departed the service on 30 September 1918 and returned home to his wife at 5 Kiln Road, Fareham; the Evening News of 20 March 1930 later records him attempting to gain a seat on the Fareham Urban District Council.

Sold with a photograph of George Cummins in later life in civilian attire; and copied research.