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Medals from a Mutiny Collection
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Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Geo. Parry, Stoker. Shannon) extremely fine £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. George Parry was born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, on 6 January 1832, and joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Fisgard on 15 December 1854. He changed branch becoming a Stoker in H.M.S. Merlin in March 1855, and the following year, in May 1856, he was placed on the books of H.M.S. Blenheim to serve as a stoker aboard her tender the Steam Yacht Osborne. On 21 January 1857 he was sent to prison for a ‘misdemeanour’, returning to Osborne on 10 February, before joining H.M.S. Shannon on 13 March 1857. He served ashore as part of Shannon’s Naval Brigade during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, and was ‘discharged dead’ at Cawnpore on 5 November 1857, four days after the action at Khujwa. Sold with copied research.
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Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Geo. Parry, Stoker. Shannon) extremely fine £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. George Parry was born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, on 6 January 1832, and joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Fisgard on 15 December 1854. He changed branch becoming a Stoker in H.M.S. Merlin in March 1855, and the following year, in May 1856, he was placed on the books of H.M.S. Blenheim to serve as a stoker aboard her tender the Steam Yacht Osborne. On 21 January 1857 he was sent to prison for a ‘misdemeanour’, returning to Osborne on 10 February, before joining H.M.S. Shannon on 13 March 1857. He served ashore as part of Shannon’s Naval Brigade during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, and was ‘discharged dead’ at Cawnpore on 5 November 1857, four days after the action at Khujwa. Sold with copied research.
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