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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 179

Pair: Able Seaman M. MacNeil, Royal Navy Polar Medal 1904, G.V.R., 1st type, bronze, no clasp (M. MacNeil, Able Seaman, "Aurora" 1917.); Coronation 1953, nearly extremely fine, last with named enclosure slip (2) Estimate £ 2,200-2,600 Malcolm MacNeil served as an Able Seaman in the Aurora for the relief of the Ross Sea Party, 1917, during Shackleton´s Trans-Antarctic Expedition. 21 bronze no clasp Polar Medals were awarded to the Aurora for her part in the relief expedition.

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£2,800