Arctic Medal 1818-55 Archive reverse with a black silk

reverse with a black silk field flanked by red silk fields

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers

(Circa June 1936-May 1945)

1 December 1841 and 11 March

Arctic Medal 1818-55 Archive reverse with a black silkEngraved 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