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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 303

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, seven clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (3088 Pte. W.F. Farndon, 2nd D. Of C. Lt. Infy.), good very fine Estimate £ 240-280 3088 Private William Frederick Farndon, born Birmingham, Warwickshire; enlisted Duke of Cornwall´s Light Infantry, 1890; served in India, November 1892 - March 1898 (entitled to I.G.S. with Punjab Frontier and Tirah clasps), and with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa from November 1899; wounded at Paardeberg, 18.2.1900; on the latter date the Regiment suffered 3 Officers killed (Colonel W. Aldworth, D.S.O., and Captains Wardlaw and Newbury), 4 Officers wounded, 12 men killed, and 55 men wounded; discharged 21.8.1902 after 12 years with the Colours. Provenance: Spink, October 1991

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