Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2013

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 219

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25 March 2013

Hammer Price:
£100

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (G. Cork, Sto., H.M.S. Monarch) small impressed naming, edge bruising, very fine £100-140

George Cork was born in Canterbury, Kent on 6 August 1870. He entered the Royal Navy as Stoker 2nd Class in July 1890 and attained the rank of Stoker in October 1891. Served on the battleship Monarch, June 1900-May 1902.

With copied service paper and other research.