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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 825

Three: 1st Class Engineer G. Gray, British Mercantile Marine

Transport 1899-1902, 1 clasp, S. Africa 1899-1902 (G. Gray.); British War Medal 1914-20 (George Gray); Mercantile Marine War Medal (George Gray), nearly extremely fine (3)

George Gray was born at Holytown, Lanark, in 1864, the son of George Gray of 1 Houldsworth Street, Lanarkshire. Recorded in the 1881 Scotland Census as a 17 year old Engineer Apprentice living with his stepmother, Jane Cairns, Gray was awarded his Engineers Certificate at Glasgow on 15 May 1896. He went on to witness service during the Second Boer War and the Great War, his ribbons being sent in 1925 to White Lodge, 1 Station Road, Craigandoran; sold with copied research.

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Sold for
£1,000

Starting price
£420