Lot Archive

Lot

№ 915

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28 March 2002

Hammer Price:
£520

Four: Commander H. A. B. Shrubb, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, no clasp, dated reverse (Nav. Cad. R.N. H.M.S. “Minotaur”); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1891-2 (Lieut., H.M.S. Racer); British War Medal (Commr. R.N.); Khedive’s Star 1882, naming rubbed on the second two, otherwise good very fine (4) £500-600

Only 18 Royal Navy officers received the clasp ‘1891-2’.

Henry Arthur Beverley Shrubb was appointed Naval Cadet on 15 July 1880; Midshipman, 15 March 1883; Sub-Lieutenant, 15 March 1887; Lieutenant, 31 December 1890; resigned, 27 November 1894.