Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A group of three miniature medals attributed to Paymaster H. South, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55; Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, all privately engraved ‘Henry South’ in serif capitals, good very fine (3) £140-£180

Spink, November 2008.

Henry South was commissioned Purser in November 1830, and served in that rank aboard H.M.S. Princess Royal from October 1853. He was promoted to Paymaster in Chief on 18 December 1857.