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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 102

(x) Three: Able Seaman F. Clines, Royal Navy

India General Service 1854-95, 1 copy clasp, Burma 1885-7 (F. Clines, A.B. H.M.S. Sphinx.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (F. Clines, A.B. H.M.S. Sphinx.); Khedive's Star 1884-6, unnamed as issued, the first sometime brooch-mounted and crudely re-affixed, the third with replacement ring, thus good fine (3)

Frank Clines was born on 25 August 1854 at Birmingham, Warwickshire. He volunteered for 10 years' service on 26 August 1872, and was appointed Boy 2nd Class aboard Impregnable. He saw extensive service with the Royal Navy, promoted Able Seaman and later, Petty Officer 2nd Class aboard Invincible in 1889. Following five months aboard Crocodile and a short spell aboard Victory at Portsmouth, Clines was shore pensioned on 5 April 1894; sold together with copied service record.

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Sold for
£320

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