Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, engraved naming (Hy. Bryan Drumr. 22nd. Co. R.M.L.I. 21 Yrs.) traces of possibly having been held in a circular mount, with replacement narrow suspension bar (having originally received a wide suspension medal), good very fine £240-£280

Recorded in The Naval Long Service Medals by Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris as receiving a wide suspension Medal in April 1873.

Henry Bryan was born in Lyllington, near Leamington, Warwickshire, on 9 December 1831 and attested for the Royal Marines at Gosport, Hampshire, on 9 September 1857, declaring 7 years and 158 days’ previous service in the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade (and is recorded as having received the Crimea Medal and Turkish Medal). Appointed a Drummer on 11 September 1857, he was discharged on 6 June 1871, after 21 years and 64 days’ service, of which his entire service as a Royal Marine had been ashore with the 22nd Company.

Sold with copied record of service and other research.