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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 182

x Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal (2588 Tpr: A.H. Jones. B.S.A. Police), good very fine Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 2588 Trooper Albert Herbert Jones a native of Dartford, Kent; served during the Defence of Mafeking with the British South Africa Police, before transferring for service as 60 Corporal, Cullinan´s Horse; Jones was killed in action at Klipdrift, 7.3.1902, where the British suffered approximately 68 killed, 121 wounded and 872 taken prisoner; Lord Methuen was amongst the latter.

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