Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee Four: Chief Carpenter’s Mate R. W. Lavers, Royal Navy Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Car. Mate, H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 73-74); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Ch. Carp’s Mte., H.M.S. Thalia); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Chf. Carp. Mte., H.M.S. Falcon), impressed naming; Khedive’s Star 1882, contact marks and edge bruising, especially to the second and third, otherwise generally about very fine (4) £280-320 Footnote Robert William Lavers was born at Stoke Damerel, Devon in January 1841 and entered the Royal Navy as a Shipwright in March 1863. He subsequently witnessed active service aboard H.M.S. Rattlesnake during the Ashantee operations of 1873, and aboard the Thalia in the Egypt operations of 1882. Having also been awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in the interim, in June 1878, he was pensioned ashore in February 1888.
Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee Four: Chief Carpenter’s Mate R. W. Lavers, Royal Navy Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Car. Mate, H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 73-74); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Ch. Carp’s Mte., H.M.S. Thalia); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Chf. Carp. Mte., H.M.S. Falcon), impressed naming; Khedive’s Star 1882, contact marks and edge bruising, especially to the second and third, otherwise generally about very fine (4) £280-320 Footnote Robert William Lavers was born at Stoke Damerel, Devon in January 1841 and entered the Royal Navy as a Shipwright in March 1863. He subsequently witnessed active service aboard H.M.S. Rattlesnake during the Ashantee operations of 1873, and aboard the Thalia in the Egypt operations of 1882. Having also been awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in the interim, in June 1878, he was pensioned ashore in February 1888.
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