Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Quartermaster Henry W. Blann, Royal Navy


Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued, and clasp loose on riband as issued; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Henry. W. Blann Qr. Mr. H.M.S. Nassau.) engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, and pierced for ring suspension as issued, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (5) £400-£500

Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002.

Henry W. Blann was born in Selsea, Sussex, in October 1837. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in July 1851, with subsequent service including with the Arethusa in the Baltic and the Crimea, and with the Chesapeake during the operations in China. Blann was pensioned in June 1876, at which time he received his L.S. & G.C. medal and gratuity, and was finally discharged to shore as Petty Officer 1st Class on 6 October 1876.

Sold with copy service papers and other research, together with a fragile original portrait photograph believed to be of the recipient in old age.