(a) NAVAL LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT, V.R., 'narrow suspension' (Wm. Ash, Commd. Btm., H.M. Coast Guard), impressed naming, good very fine

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(a) NAVAL LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT, V.R., 'narrow suspension' (Wm. Ash, Commd. Btm., H.M. Coast Guard), impressed naming, good very fine

(b) GREENWICH HOSPITAL SCHOOL'S GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL, silver, the reverse engraved, 'G.E. Ash, July 1898', with silver riband Bar similarly engraved but with the year '1899', good very fine (2)

Lot Essay

Commissioned Boatman William Ash was born in Portsea, Hampshire in August 1847 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker in August 1865. Advanced to Leading Stoker aboard H.M.S. Bellerophon in January 1873, he saw regular seagoing service until joining the Coast Guard as a Boatman in March 1880. Advanced to Commissioned Boatman at the end of 1882, he was finally pensioned from Porthleven Coast Guard Station with 'Heart disease and Dropsy' in October 1894.