Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Willm. Newark, Naval Pensioner, H.M.S. Newark), impressed naming, good very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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William Newark was born at Harwich, Essex in December 1816 and entered the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman in March 1839. He subsequently witnessed active service as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Trafalgar in the Crimea operations, including the bombardment of Sebastopol, and afterwards in the Orion in the Baltic operations of 1855. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in May 1879, he was finally pensioned ashore, aged 68 years, in January 1884, after a remarkable career spanning some 45 years.