Auction Catalogue

17 September 2020

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Lot

№ 169

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17 September 2020

Hammer Price:
£320

Pair: Leading Seaman G. Heath, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (G. Heath, Boy 1 Cl., H.M.S. Forte); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (183377 G. Heath, Lg. Sea, H.M.S. Barham.) edge knock to first, contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £220-£260

George Heath was born at Temple Bisham, Cookham, Buckinghamshire, on 8 April 1880 and entered naval service as a Boy 2nd Class on 22 April 1895, serving in H.M.S. Forte from 1 December 1896 to 8 June 1897. Promoted Leading Seaman on 3 June 1907, he served in H.M.S. Barnham from 18 February 1908 to 19 March 1910. He spent the Great War in H.M.S. Yarmouth.