Pair: Able Seaman G. T. Locke, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (199513 Ord., H.M.S. Redbreast); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (A.B., H.M.S. Redbreast), surname ‘Lock’ on this last, contact marks and polished, nearly very fine and rare (2) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

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Just 83 Queen’s South Africa Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Redbreast, all of them without clasp.

Just 76 Africa General Service Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Redbreast for “Somaliland 1902-04”.

George Thomas Locke was born in Brighton, Sussex in March 1883 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1898. He subsequently served in the gunboat H.M.S. Redbreast from January 1901 to August 1903, in which period he gained advancement to Able Seaman and qualified for his Queen’s South Africa and Africa General Service Medals. He purchased his discharge ashore on his return to the U.K.