Arctic Medal 1818-55 Auction Archive 1/YORKS: R

1/YORKS: R

A Boer War & Old Contemptibles Medal Group to the Royal Army Medical Corps - Queen's South Africa Medal

clasp: Sebastopol

Circa WWII period

as worn by the veteran

Arctic Medal 1818-55 Auction Archive 1/YORKS: REngraved in italic capitals (Robert Silvers 1823). Mounted on original ribbon. Soldered repair at the top of the suspension star and swivel (which is thereby fixed solid), otherwise good very fine. ROBERT SILVERS served as Boatswain aboard the Griper under Commander Douglas Clavering. The 1823 expedition to Spitzbergen and Eastern Greenland involved magnetic experiments and observations, a landing on Pendulum Island and exploration as far north as