Four: Ship’s Cook T. E. Veryard, Royal Navy

South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (T. E. Veryard. S. Cook, Gl. Mess, H.M.S. “Euphrates”); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (T. E. Veryard. W. R. Cook. H.M.S. Monarch); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, engraved naming (T. E. Veryard. Ship’s Cook. H.M.S. Euphrates.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, light contact marks, generally good very fine (4) £700-£900

Thomas E. Veryard was born on 9 July 1843 in Portsea, Hampshire; he served in H.M.S. Euphrates between December 1876 and August 1881, when he was transferred to Monarch, in which he served between January and July 1882.