A Third China War Medal with bar ‘Defence of Legations’ and impressed

A Third China War Medal with bar ‘Defence of Legations’ and impressed naming in smaller capital letters to ‘G.P.PEACHEY.’ (correction to the initial ‘G’), with copied reference from ‘Diary of The Siege Of The Peking Legations June to August 1900’ by William Meyrick Hewlett, who was a student interpreter at the British Legation, Peking, which states on page 22: ‘In the legation Peachey was wounded in the leg’, and with a copy of the Peking China 1900 Group Photograph of Members of The British Consular Service Staff, showing both Hewlett and Peachey.

Estimate:£1,500

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