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21 May 2020

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Lot

№ 131

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21 May 2020

Hammer Price:
£3,600

Pair: Petty Officer Charles Whitlock, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (C. Whitlock. A.B. H.M.S. “Northumberland”); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Liwondi 1893 (C. Whitlock, P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Herald.) generally good very fine (2) £3,000-£3,600

Approximately 31 single 'Liwondi 1893' clasps were awarded to European naval officers and men from H.M. Ships Herald (15) and Mosquito (16).

Charles Whitlock was born at Hyde, Hampshire, on 1 January 1860, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 4 February 1875. He served aboard H.M.S. Northumberland from 11 May 1882 to 23 May 1884, and aboard H.M.S. Herald from 6 January 1892 to 30 June 1893, serving in her during the expedition along the Upper Shire River in response to the slave raids made by Yao Chief Liwondi, February to March 1893. He was invalided out of the Navy on 5 July 1896.