Orders, Decorations and Medals

Ashantee 1873-74, clasp, Coomassie (R. J. Lapham, A.S.C., 1873-4) rank and number erased, otherwise very fine and scarce with clasp £100-120

Sold with copy of the medal roll which confirms No.1072 2nd Class Staff Sergeant Robert Jno. Lapham as entitled to the Coomassie clasp, ‘Under fire with convoy when attacked on 1/2/74 between Formanah and Ahkanknassia.’