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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 65

Three: Colonel R. Burns-Begg, Kitchener´s Horse, Later Resident Commissioner, Southern Rhodesia Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Capt: R. Burns-Begg, Kitchener´s Horse.); King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Capt: R. Burns-Begg, S.A.M.I.F.); British War Medal (Col. R. Burns-Begg), almost extremely fine, with the two related miniature awards for the Boer War (3) Estimate £ 350-400 Colonel Robert Burns-Begg, born Kinross, Scotland, March 1872; served as an Intelligence Officer with the Field Intelligence Department in South Africa from 1.9.1901; Appointed Resident Commissioner, Southern Rhodesia, 1.4.1911; listed on the Special List for Service during the Great War as Commandant, Lines of Communication. Colonel Burns-Begg died 9.1.1918, and is buried in Kinross West Burying Ground, Scotland. For the China Medal to Sergeant James Begg see Lot 122.

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