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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 134

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (A. West. A.B. H.M.S. Monarch), nearly extremely fine

Albert West was born on 2 June 1870 at Moira Toun, Stoke Damerel, Devon, the son of engine fitter John West and his wife Sophia. He attested for the Royal Navy at Chatham as Boy 2nd Class on 14 September 1885 and served aboard a variety of vessels including Impregnable, Royal Adelaide and Bellerophon. Promoted Able Seaman aboard the corvette Tourmaline on 1 September 1889, West later served aboard the armoured battleship Monarch during the Boer War before being transferred to shore on 15 June 1900, time expired. He subsequently took lodgings in Battersea and worked as a carriers checker, but appears to have fallen on hard times, being admitted to the Holborn workhouse in December 1902 and the Tower Hamlets workhouse from 23 October-7 November 1904; sold with copied roll entry.

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£140

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£50