Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Ts. Doig Coxns Launch. T.M. H.M. Reserve 20 Yrs) very fine, scarce £700-£900

Ex Douglas-Morris Collection.

J. Deacon Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002 (when sold with an unnamed 2 clasp China 1857-60 Medal).

Thomas Doig was born at Woolwich in October 1836. He joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Hornet in May 1854 and had attained the rank of Able Seaman by the time of moving to his next ship in July 1859. In the interim, he participated with H.M.S. Hornet in the Second China War and was present in the actions at Fatshan and Canton in 1857. Doig attained Petty Officer status with his appointment to Captain of the Fore’castle aboard the Forte in January 1861 and became a Captain of Launch in the same ship one year later. Removed to the Reserve in September 1872, he was pensioned ashore three months later, when he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal.

Sold with copied service papers.