The John Chidzey Collection

Three: Fleet Paymaster W. M. Shanks, Royal Navy

China 1842 (W. M. Shanks Clerk, H.M.S. Endymion) fitted with contemporary silver swivel-ring bar suspension and silver top suspension brooch; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (W. M. Shanks, Paymr.) officially impressed naming, fitted with silver top suspension brooch; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with contemporary silver swivel-ring bar suspension and silver top suspension brooch, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (3)
£600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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William Matthew Shanks served as Paymaster aboard H.M.S. Niger in the Crimean War, one of the four ships to receive officially impressed medals. He joined the Navy as a Clerk and qualified as Assistant Paymaster on 6 May 1846, becoming Paymaster in February 1854 and retired in October 1877. He was advanced to Fleet Paymaster on the Retired List in February 1886 and is shown in the Navy List as having won the ‘Gold Telegraph Medal’. He died on 4 January 1891 and was buried at Highlands Road Cemetery, Southsea.