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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 275

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing´s Nek (49947 C.S.Major. E. Holmes, 16th S.D., R.G.A.), edge bruise, good very fine Estimate £ 140-180 49947 Company Sergeant Major Edward Holmes, born Broseley, Shropshire; enlisted Royal Artillery, 1885; Sergeant 1891; served during the Second Boer War with the 16th Battery, Southern Division, Royal Garrison Artillery, was severely wounded at Geluks Farm, 24.8.1900; ´at dawn on the latter date the Boers resumed shelling the British positions on Geluk ridge; the guns of the 16th Battery came under fire from a Pom Pom and were exposed to heavy casualties´ (Duelling With Long Toms: Account of the 16th Battery Southern Division, R.G.A. During the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, D. Martin, refers); discharged 7.8.1906 (entitled to K.S.A. and two clasps and L.S. & G.C.).

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