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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 272

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (72107 Gnr: A. Maloney, 4th M.B., R.G.A.), good very fine Estimate £ 90-110 4th Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery - ´Joined General Buller in January 1900. They do not seem to have got into action at Spion Kop, but they had their guns on the top of Swartz Kop, opposite Vaal Krantz, in the beginning of February, and they were engaged in the final effort at Colenso and Pieter´s Hill.´ (British Regiments in South Africa 1899-1902, J. Stirling, refers) Provenance: Glendining, September 1991

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