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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 276

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (71409 Gnr: W. Homer, 28: R.F.A.), good very fine Estimate £ 180-220 71409 Gunner W. Homer, 28th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, was killed in action at Moedewil, 30.9.1901, ´in the second phase of the war the 28th was much employed in the Megaliesberg, the treacherous gulleys of which they have every reason to remember. Two guns of the 28th were with Dixon when he was attacked at Vlakfontein, 29th May 1901. After the screen was driven in it was round these two guns, which were captured and then recaptured, by what was perhaps the finest bayonet charge in the war, that the fight raged with unsurpassed fierceness. Several mentions were gained on this occasion. Three guns of the battery were with the same column, now under Kekewich, when it was attacked by Delarey and Kemp at Moediwill [sic] or Megato, 29th September 1901. The battery again did well. They lost 5 men killed and 9 wounded. Gunner Wooding was mentioned for "lifting two shells from a portable magazine in which the cartridges were burning furiously". This looks worthy of the "Cross"´(British Regiments in South Africa 1899-1902, J. Stirling, refers).

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