Lot Archive

Lot

№ 275

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10 October 1995

Hammer Price:
£370

Six: Leading Seaman Jeremiah Keating, Royal Navy
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Ord., H.M.S. Monarch); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Aro 1901-1902 (A.B., H.M.S. Thrush); 1914-15 Star (200936 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (L.S., R.N.); Naval L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (200936 Boatman, H.M. Coast Guard) contact marks to the first two but generally very fine or better and rare (6)

Only 46 clasps for Aro issued to the Royal Navy, all to Thrush, although a further 29 clasps were issued to the Southern Nigeria Gunboat Jackdaw.