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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 172

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Cape Colony, Relief of Ladysmith (88666 Dvr: A.D. Baseley, 63rd Bty: R.F.A.), very fine, scarce casualty to Artillery Estimate £ 300-350 88666 Driver A.D. Baseley (latest published transcription of casualty roll gives ´Beaseley´), 63rd Battery Royal Field Artillery, was killed in action at Spion Kop, 20.1.1900; on the latter date, ´the 19th, 28th and 63rd were posted round Three Tree Hill, their muzzles pointing outwards like the spokes of a wheel... At 1.15 two Boer guns and a pom-pom which had lain low all the morning suddenly opened on Three Tree Hill, scattering the crowd of generals, staff officers, and spectators assembled there. For twenty minutes or so they engaged in an artillery duel with the six batteries on the hill, and then turned aside and devoted their attention to Hart´s advance.´ (The Times History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902, Vol. III, refers) Provenance: Glendining, March 1993

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