Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Martinique (Major George Channer, St. Elizabeth’s Militia) renamed in unofficial impressed capitals; together with B.R.C.S. War Service Medal (Sister G. S. H. Channer. Commons Hospital) privately impressed naming, nearly very fine (2) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Channer Family Medals.

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George Channer was born at Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, on 17 April 1779. As a Major in St. Elizabeth’s Jamaican Militia he fought against the French in the West Indies in 1809. He afterwards lived for a while at Black River, Jamaica, before returning to Buckinghamshire where he died at Amersham on 28 November 1830.