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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 255

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut. E.G. Cowlard, 2/D of C.L.I.), last clasp loose on riband as issued, clasp carriage retaining rod restored, minor official correction to surname, nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 140-180 Lieutenant Edward G. Cowlard, born 1878, a native of Bodmin, he was the second son of C.L. Cowlard, Clerk of Peace for the County of Cornwall; educated at Marlborough; he was a ´Lieutenant in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, and was granted the rank of Lieutenant in the Army on proceeding to South Africa, March, 1900, as one of the officers of the Volunteer Company attached to the Duke of Cornwall´s Light Infantry. His name is inscribed on a tablet placed in Marlborough College Chapel in memory of all Marlburians who fell in the War.´ (The Last Post, M.G. Dooner, refers); Cowlard died of enteric fever at Springfontein, 5.3.1901; he is also commemorated in Truro Cathedral. Provenance: Christie´s, April 1992

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