Lot Archive

Lot

№ 383

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12 May 1993

Hammer Price:
£400

A scarce Officer's Yangtze group of five to Lieutenant Commander G.K. Sivewright, Royal Navy

1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; WAR MEDAL; NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 2 clasps, Yangtze 1949, Malaya (Lt., R.N.) contact marks, otherwise very fine (5)

George Kenneth Sivewright was serving aboard H.M.S. Black Swan during the Yangtze incident. He retired as Lieut-Cdr. in January 1957.