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Auction: 22003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 252

(x) Three: Lieutenant-Commander E. F. Gurney, Royal Naval Reserve

Transport 1899-1902, 1 clasp, S. Africa 1899-1902 (E. F. Gurney, In Command); British War and Mercantile Marine War medals (Edwin F. Gurney), mounted for wear, very fine (3)

Edwin Frederick Gurney was born in London in July 1864 and served as Master aboard the S.S. Urmston Grange for the transporting of troops and materiel to South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Additionally an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve, Gurney regularly attended periods of training at H.M.S. President (where his Character was consistently assessed as 'V.G.') and saw service during the Great War. He is noted as a Lieutenant-Commander (Retired) on the Navy List as late as July 1937 (when he would have been 73 years old) but disappears thereafter.

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Sold for
£1,000

Starting price
£700