Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Domestic 1st Class W. A. House, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (Cap. Cook, H.M.S. “Inflexible”); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Dom. 1st Cl., H.M.S. Victory) impressed naming, good very fine (2) £160-180

William Alfred House was born at Portsmouth on 30 July 1858, and joined the Royal Navy in March 1877. At Alexandria he was Captain’s Cook aboard H.M.S. Inflexible, commanded by Captain J. A. Fisher, later 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone.