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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 83

Pair: Able Seaman G. Aplin, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria (G. Aplin. A B. HMS. "Alexandra"), official corrections to rating, pawnbroker's mark to rim; Khedive's Star 1882, pitting, edge bruising, nearly very fine (2)

George Aplin was born in Dorset on 21 November 1861. Upon the birth of his daughter, Beatrice May Aplin, on 31 May 1904 he had left the Royal Navy and was living at Saint Lawrence Lane, Ashburton, Devon and working as a General Labourer. Aplin died on 17 March 1942 in San Diego, California and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, San Diego; sold together with a copied entry in the Newton Abbot registry of births and a photograph with birth and death details handwritten on the reverse.

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Sold for
£220

Starting price
£100