Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, VR, narrow suspender, impressed naming awarded to Captain’s Coxswain W. Stephens, Royal Navy who was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 26th January 1888 whilst serving aboard H.M.S. Curlew.
Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, VR, narrow suspender, impressed naming; (WM STEPHENS. CAPTN’S COXN. H.M.S. CURLEW)
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine
William Stephens was born in Plymstock, Devon on 30th August 1858 and joined Impregnable on 22nd September 1873 as a Boy 2nd Class, before being advanced to Boy 1st Class on 28th October 1874. He would be aboard Diamond on his eighteenth birthday being appointed an Ordinary Seaman 2nd Class on 30th August 1876 before being advanced to Ordinary Seaman on 1st January 1877, and then to Able Seaman aboard Cambridge on 1st December 1879, before he was appointed a Leading Seaman on Himalaya on 17th October 1884, Captain’s Coxwain aboard Curlew on 26th June 1886, before being issued a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 26th January 1888.
Having transferred to Cambridge on 23rd June 1888 he was appointed a Petty officer 1st Class, later being pensioned on 31st August 1896.
