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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 67

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (174686. A:B: J.W. Wilson. H.M.S. Monarch.), engraved naming, good very fine

Able Seaman John Walter Wilson, born Bermondsey, London, May 1877; joined the Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable, July 1893; advanced Signalman, May 1895; Ordinary Seaman, January 1897; transferred to H.M.S. Monarch, January 1897; promoted Able Seaman, March 1899; transferred to H.M.S. Pembroke, July 1900; retired, December 1905.

Approximately 61 'Relief of Kimberley' clasp awards to the Royal Navy, to men from H.M.S. Doris, Monarch, and Powerful.

Approximately 144 five clasp Queen's South Africa Medals awarded to the Royal Navy.

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