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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 153

Russia, Imperial, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, 28mm, silver (132280 O. John Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Jupiter.), very fine Estimate £ 200-250 132280 Chief Stoker Owen John, born Pembroke, Wales, 1866; enlisted Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1885; service during the Great War included in H.M.S. Jupiter (battleship), 29.11.1914-19.5.1915; in 1915 the latter was sent to Archangel as an ice breaker, and became the first ship to arrive there in February of that year.

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£400