Lot Archive

Lot

№ 91

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12 June 1991

Hammer Price:
£700

Four: G. Crocker, Captain's Coxwain, Royal Navy.

NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria; BALTIC 1854, unnamed; ARCTIC MEDAL 1818-1855, unnamed; ST. JEAN D'ACRE MEDAL, bronze,good very fine (4)

George Crocker served as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Talbot at Syria. He was aboard H.M.S. Ploverin 1848 when it took part in one of the many search expeditions to find Sir John Franklin. During the operations in the Baltic, 1854, he was Captain's Coxwain aboard H.M.S. Ajax.