Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Jno: Rigler, Skd: Chf: Carpt’s Mte: H.M.S. Asia) impressed naming, very fine £80-£100

Oliver Sterling Lee Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2005.

John Rigler was born in Landport, Hampshire, in April 1852. He joined the Royal Navy as a Shipwright in June 1873. He saw subsequent service aboard H.M.S. Decoy during the Egypt operations of 1882, which won him entitlement to the Medal with the ‘Alexandria 11th July’ clasp and the Khedive’s Star, and he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in July 1889. Rigler was shore pensioned in the rate of Chief Carpenter’s Mate in July 1899, but briefly rejoined as a Pensioner Shipwright before transferring to the Royal Fleet Reserve in June 1905.

Sold with copied service papers.