The Burma campaign medal awarded to Chief Engineer S. Gaks, for service aboard the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company’s steamer Rangoon

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Chief Officer S. Gaks I. F. Co’s Str. “Rangoon”) good very fine
£260-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Goddard Collection of Important Naval Medals and Nelson Letters.

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The Rangoon was a paddle steamer built in 1879 by Messrs William Denny of Glasgow, for the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company. Her measurements were length 250 feet, width 30 feet, draught 8.7 feet. Her gross tonnage was 478 tons. She was sold to the Indian Government in 1893 and broken up in 1938.