Auction Catalogue

9 December 1999

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 166

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9 December 1999

Hammer Price:
£60

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (C. H. Olver, Ldg. Sto. 1st Cl., H.M.S. Monarch) suspension re-fixed, nearly very fine £60-80

Stoker Petty Officer Charles Henry Olver was killed on 6 August 1914 when H.M.S. Amphion struck a mine and sank. This ship was the first British vessel to be lost in the Great War.