Auction Catalogue

11 September 2024

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 482

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11 September 2024

Hammer Price:
£1,200

Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Ship’s Cpl. J. Sherwood. H.M.S. Rosario) Royal Mint impressed naming, light pawn broker’s mark to edge, otherwise extremely fine and rare to ship £1,000-£1,400

One of only 16 Canada General Service Medals awarded to H.M.S. Rosario.

John Sherwood, a native of Compton, Plymouth, Devon, served as a Ship’s Corporal 1st Class in H.M.S. Rosario.

Sold with copied medal roll extract, dated March 1901, and annotated ‘Medals to be engraved [sic] in England.’