Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Armourer A. Newman, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (A. Newman, Armr., H.M.S. Carysfort.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Amos Newman. Armourer H.M.S. Warrior) impressed naming; Khedive’s Star, dated 1884, unnamed as issued, contact marks and pitting from Star, good fine (3) £220-£260

Amos Newman was born in Downton, Wiltshire, on 25 November 1850, and worked as a gunsmith. He joined the Royal Navy as Armourer’s Crew on 1 January 1873 and was raised Armourer at the Royal Navy Gunnery School on Whale Island, near Portsmouth, on 1 February 1876. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal on 26 February 1881, he was advanced Torpedo Artificer at Vernon on 1 October 1886, and was shore pensioned from Thunderer in 1893.