Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sailmaker S. E. Gibbs, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued; Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Sailmkr’s. Mate, H.M.S. Aurora) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine (3) £900-1000

Silvanus Ezekiel Gibbs was born in Stoke Deverel, Devonshire on 16 October 1839. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. St. George on 10 February 1854. He then served on Royal William, February-May 1854 and Calcutta, May 1854-May 1856 - seeing service in the operations in the Baltic. Then on Sans Pareil firstly as a Boy 1st Class, then as an Ordinary Seaman, May 1856-February 1859, when he served in the operations in China. Gibbs served as a Sailmaker’s Mate on H.M.S. Aurora, March 1863-August 1866, seeing service in Canada. He was advanced to Sailmaker when on Boscawen in January 1870. Sailmaker Gibbs was pensioned ashore at Greenock on 12 November 1877. With copied service papers.