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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 490

Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Leonard Beer Bignell), extremely fine

Leonard Beer Bignell was born in Totnes, Devon in 1879, the son of a Master Mariner. The London Gazette of 4 January 1918 lists his appointment by the Admiralty as a Sailmaker, H.M. Dockyards and Naval Establishments, and on 13 January 1939 he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal as an Inspector of Sailmakers, H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness. Bignell died in Portsmouth on 13 December 1954, leaving just under £2000 to his wife, Eva Mary; Bignell appears to have been the only Inspector of Sailmakers to have been awarded an Imperial Service Medal.

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