Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 3rd June 2025
Lot 39
A Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Carpenter Benjamin James Bond, H.M. Coastguard,
Estimate £150 - £200
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Description
A Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Carpenter Benjamin James Bond, H.M. Coastguard, Edward VII (158270 B. J. BOND, DIV. CARPR.. H.M. COAST GUARD.), nearly extremely fine and toned; together with the Memorial Plaque issued in respect of this man's brother (WILLIAM CHARLES BOND); also a Silver War Badge issued to 19612 Private Leonard Haswell, Hampshire Regiment. [3]
Benjamin James Bond was born in Portsmouth in 1868 and enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1890. After a number of seagoing and shore postings he concluded his career in various Coastguard stations in Scotland. His L.S.G.C. Medal was awarded in 1906. His Brother William Charles Bond was Chief Sickberth Steward in H.M.H.S. Plassy when he died of acute gastritis in August 1916. He had been in the Plassy since the start of the war and was almost certainly on duty during the Battle of Jutland when his ship took on casualties from the battlecruisers Lion and Princess Royal.