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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 168

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Relief of Ladysmith (Capt. C. Walter. Sco. Rif.), good very fine, with a page from the Illustrated London News, featuring a picture of recipient amongst those listed as ´Killed at Spion Kop, Ladysmith and Modder River´ Estimate £ 800-1,200 Captain Charles Walter, born 1872, the son of General J.M. Walter, C.B.; educated at Wellington and the Royal Military College; commissioned Second Lieutenant Scottish Rifles, 1892; advanced Captain 1899; was serving with 1st Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in India with the outbreak of the Second Boer War; he immediately volunteered for active service and was sent to Natal; he was killed in action by shell fire at Spion Kop, in operations on the Upper Tugela, 24.1.1900; one of three officers from the regiment to be killed at Spion Kop. Provenance: A.A. Upfill-Brown Collection, December 1991

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