New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (G. Cranbrook, O.S., H.M.S. Curacoa) contact marks nearly very fine £500-£700

George Cranbrook was born in Hammersmith, Middlesex, on 9 December 1845. He attested into the Royal Navy as a Boy, on 7 March 1861 and appears on the 1861 census onboard H.M.S. Victoria and Albert. he saw later service in New Zealand from 1863 to 1864 as an Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Curacoa. He died, aged 51, in Kensington, London, in 1896.

Sold with copied enlistment papers and copied medal roll extract.