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16 July 2020

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Lot

№ 486

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16 July 2020

Hammer Price:
£180

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (A. Watson. Nl. Cadet, R.N. H.M.S. Euryalus), pitting, nearly very fine £120-£160

Arthur Watson was born on 4 August 1868, the son of Colonel W. H. Watson, J.P., of Midhurst, Sussex, and entered the Royal Navy in January 1882 as a Cadet in H.M.S. Britannia. He served in H.M.S. Euryalus on operations in Egypt as a Naval Cadet and, from 15 June 1884, a Midshipman. From April to September 1885, he served in H.M.S. Bacchante in the East Indies, before he resigned from the Navy on 9 October 1885 ‘to enter the army’.