Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Arthur Boorman, Lg. Sto. 1Cl., H.M.S. Magdala.) impressed naming, very fine £80-£100

Arthur Boorman was born near Sittingbourne, Kent, on 7 November 1865. He joined the Royal Navy at Chatham on 16 March 1885 and was raised Leading Stoker 1st Class on 1 April 1892. Transferring to the Royal Fleet Reserve on 3 May 1907, he was discharged medically unfit two years later following the ‘amputation of fingers’.