Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Reverend T. E. Meredith, Chaplain, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (T. E. Meredith, Chaplain H.M.S. Algiers.) contemporarily engraved naming in Hunt & Roskell style; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, plugged, with Indian Mutiny style suspension, minor edge bruising and contact marks, generally good very fine (3) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Chaplains formed by Philip Mussell.

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Provenance: Illustrated on the front cover of the Medal Yearbook 2013.

Thomas Edward Meredith was born on 8 April 1825 and educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Ordained Deacon in June 1848, and Priest in June of the following year, he was appointed Chaplain of H.M.S. Mæander on 5 July 1852, transferring to H.M.S. Algiers on 30 May 1854. After service in the Crimea he transferred to H.M.S. Ajax on 1 October 1856, before transferring for service on the Cape Establishment. He died on 20 August 1891.