Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Pair: Chief Quarter-Master J. Bew, Royal Navy

China 1857-60, no clasp, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Chf. Qr. Mr., H.M.S. Victoria, 23 Yrs.), surname and rank corrected on the last, good very fine (2) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Jack Deacon.

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Jesse Bew was born at Plymouth, Devon in February 1824 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Cambridge in January 1841. Advanced to Ordinary Seaman in January 1846 and to Able Seaman one year later, he served aboard the Retribution in the Second China War and gained Petty Officer status with his appointment to Captain of the Maintop in the same ship in January 1859. Bew attained the rate of Chief Quarter-Master shortly before being pensioned ashore from the Victoria in May 1867, the same month that he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal. The latter award once resided in the Murray Collection as a single item.