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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 69

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (186793 A-B: R.S. Bone, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, toned, good very fine Estimate £ 380-420 186793 Able Seaman Robert Seymour Bone, born St. Giles, London, 1879; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1897; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897- 9.3.1900 and in H.M.S. Doris, 10.3.1900-10.6.1900; subsequent service included in H.M.S. Berwick (armoured cruiser), 20.11.1903-15.11.1905, when on the latter date his service papers give ´Run New York´.

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