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17 August 2021

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№ 485

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17 August 2021

Hammer Price:
£1,600

Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Pte. R.M: Lt. Inft. N, T. Lee, H.M.S. Aurora) officially impressed naming, one very minor edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine and scarce £500-£600

Only 3 officers and 21 men belonging to the R.M.L.I. and R.M.A. received the Canada General Service medal, approximately half of this number serving aboard Aurora.

Northcott Tom Lee was born at Chard, Somerset, in 1843 and enlisted for the Royal Marines at Taunton on 4 December 1861, aged 18 years, for an engagement of 12 years. He had previously enrolled in the First Somerset Militia in August 1860 from which he was discharged on enlisting in the Royal Marines. He was in Royal Adelaide (for service in Prince Consort) from 2 October to 10 November 1863, but joined Aurora on 21 November 1863, remaining in her until 20 December 1867, apart from 21 days in prison in Quebec in February/March 1867, and also 5 days in cells. He left the service on 6 October 1868, being medically unfit due to ‘neuralgia of head after sun stroke’ contracted three years earlier. Sold with copied discharge papers.