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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 173

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (K.19873 W. C. Bolton, Lg. Sto. H.M.S. Clio.), contact marks, very fine

117 'Somaliland 1920' clasps to H.M.S. Clio, with a further 30 to locally recruited seedies.

William Charles Bolton was born at Ilford, London in August 1889 and enlisted in the Royal Navy in July 1913. He served aboard Blenheim April 1914-July 1917, during which period the Blake-class cruiser served in the Gallipoli operations, following which she conveyed the body of Sir Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada to Halifax. Bolton subsequently served aboard Grasshopper and Clio for the Somaliland operations, before being discharged time expired from his old friend Blenheim in July 1925; sold with copied service record.

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Sold for
£220