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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 714

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Ge. Hutchens. Qr. Mr. H.M.Yt. Victoria & Albert.), engraved naming, pawn broker’s mark to obverse field, good very fine

George Hutchens was born at Alverstoke, Hampshire, on 28 May 1834 and joined the Royal Navy on 31 March 1856. Posted to the Victoria and Albert from 1 October 1858 to 31 March 1876, he witnessed over 50 different cruises aboard the Royal Yacht, and on many occasions carried Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort before his death at Windsor Castle on 14 December 1861. He would also have been present during the visit of Sultan Abdulaziz, Emperor of the Ottoman Empire in 1867, an event captured in oil by the artist George Housman Thomas. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal as Rigger & Quartermaster, he spent his final years serving at the Royal Naval Barracks in Portsmouth and was discharged dead on 2 September 1894 in consequence of cancer.

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