Five: Carpenter’s Crew W. Moorey, Royal Navy, later Divisional Carpenter, H.M. Coast Guard

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Wm. Moorey.); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Wm. Moorey.) privately engraved naming; St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, pierced with small ring suspension, heavy edge bruising, light contact marks, very fine (5) £1,000-£1,400

William Moorey was born in Exmouth, Devon, on 5 May 1819 and first served as an Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Malabar from 13 March 1838 to 31 January 1839. He served as an Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Implacable from 1 February 1839 to 31 January 1842, and saw active service during the operations on and off the coast of Syria in 1840. Volunteering for Continuous Service on 15 February 1854, he served as Carpenter’s Crew in H.M.S. Dauntless from 17 January 1854 to 13 March 1857, and then in the same rate in H.M.S. Impregnable from 14 March to 1 April 1857. Transferring to the Coast Guard on 2 April 1857, he served as a Divisional Carpenter from that date until finally retiring on 10 July 1869. He is listed as a Greenwich Pensioner in the 1871 Census, and in the 1881 Census is recorded as a Naval pensioner at Sidmouth.

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