Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 183

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£400

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith (Capt. G. S. Walker, R.A.M.C.) nearly extremely fine £200-250

George Stanley Walker, M.B. was born in May 1865; joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1892, being promoted to Captain in July 1895. Whilst serving at Ladysmith he was mentioned in despatches by Lieutenant-General Sir G. White on 23 March 1900 (London Gazette 8 February 1901). Captain Walker died of enteric at Ladysmith on 23 February 1900.