Auction Catalogue

2 July 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 522

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2 July 2003

Hammer Price:
£210

South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (G. E. Walker, Lamplr., H.M.S. Euphrates) second initial officially corrected, good very fine and an unusual rate £140-160

George Frederick Walker was born in Sherness, Kent in May 1858 and entered the Royal Navy as a Lamptrimmer aboard H.M.S. Duke of Wellington in December 1876. Transferred a few days later to the Euphrates, he went on to serve in her off South Africa and, in the Inconstant, off Egypt in 1882. Walker was discharged, still as a Lamptrimmer, in September of the latter year.