Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Wm. L. Gwilliam, Capt. F. Top, H.M.S. Impregnable, 20 Yrs.), edge nicks, nearly extremely fine £120-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Jack Deacon.

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William Lewis Gwilliam was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in April 1873.

He was born at Freystrop, Pembrokeshire in May 1835 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Saturn in October 1849. Advanced to Leading Seaman in July 1860, he joined the recently launched - and revolutionary ironclad - Warrior in the following year, and remained in her until removing to the Blenheim in April 1863. Gwilliam was finally pensioned ashore from the Impregnable in early 1873.