THE FINE LONG SERVICE GROUP TO AN AB. LATER LIEUTENANT ROYAL NAVY WHO SERVED FOR OVER 35 YEARS, INCLUDING THE ZULU AND EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGNS

SOUTH AFRICA 1877-9, NO CLASP ‘"HIMALAYA" A. THOMPSON [SIC], A.B. H.M.S.’, EGYPT 1882-9, DATED REVERSE, CLASP, ALEXANDRIA 11TH JULY ‘A. H. THOMSON. CAPT. F. TOP. H.M.S. "SUPERB"’, KHEDIVE'S STAR 1882, BRITISH WAR MEDAL ‘CH. BOSN. A.H. THOMSON. R.N.’

Alexander Thomson was born in Liff in Forfar in 1858, he joined the Royal Navy in 1872 at the age of 14 but having declared himself a year older. He served continuously until 1902 and rejoined on the outbreak of WWI, serving in various training ships and establishing Fisgard for the remainder of the war until he was invalided in 1919, he retired with the rank Lieutenant and was awarded a Greenwich Hospital pension in 1935 and he died in 1939.

Condition VF and better, with a detailed file of research, including copied service papers. Ex DNW, December 2004 (£600).