Lot Archive

Lot

№ 555

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1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£330

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (9094 Pte. T. Grundy, R.M. H.M.S. Forte) impressed naming, contact marks, nearly very fine £200-250

Private Thomas Grundy died on 20 September 1914 when his ship, the armoured cruiser H.M.S. Cressy, in company with the Aboukir and Hogue, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-9.