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H.M.S. Challenger Long Service Medal

£115.00

Assistant Warder Lewes Prison

 

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Royal Navy LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL (EVIIR) THOMAS CONNOR SH. CORPL. H.M.S. CHALLENGER

Service Number 154631 Thomas ConnorĀ  Master at Arms is on the Medal Roll for the sole entitlement of the British War Medal. His papers show the he was born near Liverpool and enlisted 1890.

Of interest, in 1910 he became an Assistant Warder at Lewes Naval Prison, Sussex. He had been a Ship’s Corporal having been Stoker, Leading Stoker with progression to Master at Arms prior to secondment to Lewes Naval Prison.