Lot Archive

Lot

№ 412

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25 March 1997

Hammer Price:
£750

East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Rev. Martin J. Hall) dark toned, extremely fine and very scarce

Nineteen awards were made to the clergy, 13 Church of England and 6 Roman Catholic. The Reverend Martin Hall transferred from Ngogwe, in September 1896, to the Church Missionary Society mission station at Bukassa, in the Sese Islands, on Lake Victoria. He was drowned in 1900 when his canoe capsized on the lake.