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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 563

(x) Three: Private A. Walker, Shropshire Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (7240 Pte. A. Walker. Shrops. L.I.); Hong Kong Plague 1894 (Private A. Walker, S.L.I.), mounted as worn, very fine (3)

Provenance:
Spink, January 1985.

Albert Walker was born in 1871 and having served with the Whitewash Brigade in Hong Kong during the 1894 Plague, re-enlisted for service during the Great War on 31 August 1914. He served overseas with the Shropshire Light Infantry and was discharged with a Silver War Badge, having transferred to the Labour Corps, on account of sickness on 12 December 1917, aged 46.

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Sold for
£2,000

Starting price
£1000