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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 26

South Africa 1834-53 (W. Tucker. Sailmaker.), minor edge nicks, nearly very fine

William Tucker served as Sailmaker aboard H.M.S. Styx. During the campaign Castor, Dee, Hermes, Rhadamanthus and Styx were all heavily employed in conveying troops, ammunition and stores from one side of the Cape Colony to the other, and the crews were exposed to great danger in landing soldiers, horses and equipment through the heavy surf. It was aboard Styx that the Kaffir Chief Seyolo was taken as a prisoner to Cape Town towards the end of November 1852 (The South Africa 1853 Medal, refers).

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£750

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