Auction Catalogue

25 March 1997

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

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.