Auction Catalogue

2 March 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 518

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£130

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (KX.75735 W. T. Harper, P.O., H.M.S. Repulse) nearly extremely fine £60-80

The battlecruiser Repulse, launched in 1916, was sunk in company with the battleship Prince of Wales, by Japanese aircraft off the coast of Malaya on 10 December 1941.