Brian advises that Petty Officer William Tozer TOWELL was awarded his third GCB 1887, and was advanced to CPO during 1889.

With many thanks to Brian Cave © for this superb and dateable photograph, which presumably demonstrates how the uniform should have been worn at this time, not forgetting the old addage of "different ships, different cap tallies," and all that is implied in that statement.

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