Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

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

№ 778

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£110

Royal Humane Society, small, bronze, successful (Duncan Leitch, H.M.S. Cornopus (sic), 9 Octr. 1867), with bronze buckle on ribbon, minor edge bruising, very fine £100-140

Ex Robert W. Tilling Collection, ref. L.S.A.R.S. Journal No.18, p.26-33.

Ship’s Corporal Duncan Leitch, H.M.S.
Canopus, effected his successful rescue at Hamoaze on 9 October 1867 (Case No.18057).