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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 161

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Cape Colony (2) (1725 Tpr: R. Duncan. Scott´s Rly: Gds:; 252 Tpr: A. Thom. Scott´s Rly: Gds:), suspension claw loose to first, nearly very fine, last very fine (2) Estimate £ 120-160 Scott´s Railway Guards - ´The corps, strength about 500, under Lieut.-Colonel R.G. Scott, V.C., D.S.O., did work on the Orange River-Kimberley line... it was infested by roving bands bent on destruction; and Scott´s Railway Guards had often skirmishes involving losses, and had much dangerous patrol work to undertake.´ (The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902, J. Stirling refers).

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£170