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Auction: 6007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 619

Africa General Service 1902, E.VII.R, 1st high relief bust, one clasp, Aro 1901-1902 (Capt: A.D. Lewes, R. Scot: Fus:), suspension slack, good very fine, very rare to European Officers and N.C.O.´s Estimate £ 500-600Captain Alban Dymoke Lewes, commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1893; Lieutenant 1896; Captain 1900; served in Southern Nigeria 1901-02 and took part in operations in the Ishan and Ulia Countries (Mentioned in Despatches); served in the Aro Expediton, during which he was severely wounded.

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