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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 43

Four: Ship's Corporal First Class H. Bovey, Royal Navy
Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (H. Bovey, Signaln. 3.Cl. H.M.S. Bittern. 73-74.); Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp (H. Bovey. Sh: Corpl. 1.Cl: H.M.S. "Agincourt."); Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R. (Hy. Bovey, Sh: Corpl. 1st. Cl: H.M.S. Penelope.); Khedive's Star 1882, unnamed as issued, light contact marks, generally very fine (4)

68782 Ship's Corporal First Class Henry Bovey, born Newton Abbott, Devon, February 1855; joined the Royal Navy, as Boy First Class, January 1873; advanced Signalman Third Class, serving in H.M.S. Bittern, February 1873; transferred to H.M.S. Lord Warden, August 1874; promoted Signalman Second Class, September 1874; Signalman, February 1879; Ship's Corporal Second Class, May 1880; transferred to H.M.S. Agincourt, October 1880; promoted Ship's Corporal First Class, June 1882; transferred to H.M.S. Royal Adelaide, October 1883; to H.M.S. Penelope, March 1889; awarded Naval Long Service & Good Conduct medal, June 1889, when on the 'Cape' Station; shore pensioned, February 1893.

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