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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 785

A very rare campaign pair awarded to Captain H. Tranmer, Royal Niger Company & Merchant Marine

Royal Niger Company Medal 1886-97, silver issue, 1 clasp, Nigeria 1886-1897 (H. Tranmer.); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1898 (Capt: H. Tranmer, R. Niger Co.), mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine (2)

Harry Tranmer was born in 1862 at Wakefield, Yorkshire was certified as a 2nd Mate in April 1884 and earned his Extra Master's Certificate in 1891 at Liverpool. Appointed Master of the Royal Niger Company's Stern Wheel vessel Liberty on 15 December 1896, Tranmer wrote to the Secretary of State for the Colonies to retain his command following the acquisition of the vessel for the operations on the Niger on 12 October 1898. He was duly awarded his Royal Niger Company Medal in Silver from Spink & Son on 29 March 1900, with his East and West Africa Medal following on 25 February 1903, for the Siama expedition. Tranmer saw further appointments aboard the Soudan, Ebo, Dee, Sir George, Oguta and Altair, a Marine Superintendent by the time of his leaving the service before the Great War. He died at Cromer Road, Liverpool, on 19 December 1937; sold with copied roll extracts and research.

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Sold for
£5,200

Starting price
£2100