Lot Archive

Lot

№ 227

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£100

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (W. H. Williams, Caulker, H.M.S. Serapis) contact marks and edge nicks, otherwise very fine £80-100

William Henry Williams was born at Hartland, Devon in September 1847 and entered the Royal Navy as a Shipwright in February 1868. Appointed a Caulker’s Mate in H.M.S. London, the harbour store ship at Zanzibar in February 1876, he went on to witness active service in the Egypt operations of 1884, in the Serapis. Williams was pensioned ashore in March 1888.