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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 165

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (4374 Pte. T. Page, 5th Dragoon Guards), extremely fine Estimate £ 400-500 4374 Private T. Page (latest published transcription of Casualty Roll gives initial ´G´) 5th Dragoon Guards, was killed in action near Long Valley, Ladysmith, 3.11.1899, during ´D´ Squadron´s retirement from ´a hot and accurate fire´; The Times History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902, Vol. III, gives further incite, ´On the 3rd General Brocklehurst took out a strong cavalry force, eventually comprising almost the whole of the mounted troops in Ladysmith, with a brigade division of artillery, on a reconnaissance against the Free Staters to the west of the town... haphazard action followed, in which some of the Imperial Light Horse were nearly cut off in a regular blind alley among the hills, and only rescued with difficulty by the 5th Dragoon Guards and the artillery. After some five hours´ fighting the British withdrew with a loss of six killed and 28 wounded.´ Page was the Regiment´s first casualty of the siege, and one of only nine men killed in action whilst serving with the 5th Dragoon Guards during the Boer War. Provenance: Sotheby, December 1990

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