Royal Navy Campaign Medal Group of Five Covering Service in Two African Campaigns and the Great War, East and West Africa medal, with clasp Benin River 1894, impressed naming, ‘T ABBOTT, STO, H.M.S. ALECTO’, Queens South Africa medal, impressed naming, ‘T. ABBOTT, STO: H.M.S. THETIS’, 1914-15 Star medal, British War and Victory medals, all named ‘172236, T ABBOTT, STO1, R.N.’ Generally good condition. Thomas Abbott was born in Deptford, Kent on 17th March 1873 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd class in March 1893 on Pembroke. He served continuously through to 25th October 1916 when he was invalided to Chatham Hospital. All 5 medals and clasps are confirmed on the relevant medal rolls, and he did not qualify for a Long Service meal due to 2 spells in the cells.