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23 June 2021

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 452

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23 June 2021

Hammer Price:
£420

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Gambia (188344 A.B. J. H. Littlejohns. H.M.S. Forte.) light contact marks, nearly very fine, rare £200-£240

Only 29 clasps awarded to H.M.S. Forte.

John Stanley Littlejohns was born in Cornwall on 16 October 1878 and joined he Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 15 April 1896. Advanced Able Seaman on 2 December 1897, he joined H.M.S. Forte on 4 April 1899, and served in her during the initial stages of the Boer War (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with claps Natal), and the operations on and off the coast of Gambia, January to March 1901. He was shore invalided on 8 May 1903.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.