Lot Archive

Lot

№ 778

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29 March 2000

Hammer Price:
£250

Pair: Assistant Fleet Paymaster W. H. W. Markham, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (Asst. Paymr. R.N., H.M.S. Penelope) name and rank officially corrected; Khedive‘s Star 1882, nearly extremely fine (2) £120-140

Assistant Paymaster William Hogg Wolseley Markham first entered the service as Assistant Clerk in March 1869, rising to the rank of Clerk 10 March 1870 and Assistant Paymaster 21 March 1873. In this rank he was present aboard H.M.S. Penelope at the bombardment of Alexandria on 11 July 1882.