A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy

Four: Acting Leading Seaman C. Connor, Royal Navy, who was killed in action on S.S. Formby, 15 December 1917

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Natal, Diamond Hill, Belfast (142561 A.B., H.M.S. Tartar) large impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (142561 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (142561 Act. l.S., R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Christopher Connor) good very fine and better (5) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy.

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Only four Q.S.A. Medals with the above combination to H.M.S. Tartar. A duplicate Q.S.A. was also issued to the recipient.

Leading Seaman Christopher Connor was killed in action, aged 47 years, when the S.S. Formby, in transit from Liverpool to Waterford, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U.62 in Caernarvon Bay on 15.12.1917. Fifteen men, including the Master were lost.