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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 261

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4269 Dvr: H. Clark. U Bty: R.H.A.), last two clasps loose on riband as issued, nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 70-90 U Battery - ´Went with General French to Kimberley and Bloemfontein. Practically the whole personnel and five guns were taken by the enemy at Sannah´s Post, 31st March 1900. Took part in the initial stages of the operations for surrounding Prinsloo, July 1900, thereafter in the pursuit of De Wet. Towards the close of 1900 the battery was doing fine work in the north of Orange River Colony under General E.C. Know and Colonel Le Gallais. In the action on 27th October two guns and some waggons were captured from De Wet, one of these guns being one which the battery had lost at Sannah´s Post.´ (British Regiments in South Africa 1899-1902, J. Stirling, refers).

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