Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Able Seaman J. Thomason, Royal Navy, later Metropolitan Police

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Gambia 1894 (J. Thomason, A.B., H.M.S. Raleigh); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. J. Thomason, Thames Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. J. Thomason) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Paul Bentley Collection.

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Joseph Samuel Thomason was born in Towcester, Northamptonshire on 13 November 1873 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in December 1889. He subsequently served in H.M.S. Raleigh from October 1891 until February 1895, in which period he was advanced to Able Seaman and came ashore with the Naval Brigade in the Gambia operations of 1894. Having purchased his discharge ashore, Thomason joined the Metropolitan Police in December 1899, and served with the Thames Division river police. He finally retired to pension in December 1924.

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