Lot Archive

Lot

№ 992

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£250

Three: Chief Artificer Engineer W. Thompson, Royal Navy

China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (E.R.A.3 Cl., H.M.S. Centurion); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. Art. Eng., R.N.) extremely fine (3) £180-220

William Thompson was born at Cleator Moor, Cumberland, on 1 June 1869. He joined the Navy in November 1894 and was commissioned in March 1903.