Miniature: Legion of Honour, 2nd class

Awarded to Adm Fleet Sir Henry Keppel. Mounted on a bar and framed within a glazed silver cigarette case inscribed: "MINIATURE ORDERS & MEDALS OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET THE HON. SIR H. KEPPEL, G.C.B. O.M. BORN JUNE 14TH 1809 DIED JAN 17TH 1904". Ten medals:- Order of the Bath, Queen Victoria's Jubilee 1887 with 1897 bar, Edward VII's coronation, China Medal with bars CHINA 1842, FATSHAN 1857, Crimea medal with bar SEBASTOPOL, Baltic medal, Legion of Honour (France), Order of Mejidie (Turkey), Al Valore Militare (Savoy), Turkish Crimea.

Object Details

ID: MED2304
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: Miniature group
Display location: Not on display
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London