Auction Catalogue

16 December 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

№ 188

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16 December 2003

Hammer Price:
£720

Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, N. Nigeria, N. Nigeria 1902 (Dr. H. G. Lewer, N. Nigeria Regt.); together with a second medal, now without clasp (Doctor H. G. Lewer, W.A.M.S.) both medals with low relief bust and officially impressed naming, and related 2-clasp dress miniature, very fine or better (3) £600-800

Horace Gordon Lewer, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Edin., L.F.P.S. Glasg. 1899. Joined the Colonial Medical Service.

Sold with copies of the medal rolls of the Northern Nigeria Regiment (Medal and clasp for N. Nigeria) and the West African Medical Staff (Medal and clasp for N. Nigeria 1902) which clearly show the issue of a medal and clasp for each campaign to Doctor Lewer.