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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Leonard J. Elliott, Ch. S. B. Stewd., H.M.S. Duke of Wellington.) impressed naming, good very fine £70-£90

Leonard Joseph Elliott was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in December 1864. He joined the Royal Navy as a Domestic 3rd Class in March 1883, and advanced to Chief Sick Berth Steward in July 1901. Elliott had various hospital postings including to Haslar and Hong Kong, and served at the former during the Great War (entitled BWM). He contracted septic pneumonia at Haslar, and was ‘Discharged Dead’ on 9 April 1916.

Sold with copied service papers.