Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Able Seaman G. T. Locke, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (199513 G. T. Locke, Ord., H.M.S. Redbreast); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (G. T. Lock [sic], A.B., H.M.S. Redbreast.) contact marks, polished, therefore nearly very fine (2) £280-£320

Provenance: Barrett J. Carr Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007.

Approximately 83 Queen’s South Africa Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Redbreast, all of them without clasp.

Approximately 81 Africa General Service Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Redbreast for ‘Somaliland 1902-04’.

George Thomas Locke was born in Brighton, Sussex in March 1883 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1898. He transferred to the gunboat H.M.S. Redbreast on 22 January 1901, was advanced Able Seaman on 1 July 1901, and served in her during the Boer War, and during operations on and off the coast of Somaliland from 16 March to 10 July 1903. He purchased his discharge ashore on his return to the U.K. on 1 December 1903.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extract for the A.G.S.