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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 37

Six: Private W.E. Steele, Rand Rifles, Late Royal Engineers Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp (16887. Sapr. W.E. Steele. 24th. Co. R.E.); Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (749 Pte. W.E. Steele. Rly: Pnr: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Pte. E.W. [sic] Steele Rand Rfls.); British War and Victory Medals (Pte. E.W. [sic] Steele. Rand Rfls.); Khedive´s Star 1882, unnamed, lacquered, contact marks to first, very fine (6) Estimate £ 200-240 16887 Private William Edward Steele, born Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1860; enlisted in the Royal Engineers, January 1881, and served with the Engineers in Egypt from August to October 1882, and present at the action of Kassassin, 9.9.1882; discharged at Cape Town, September 1888, after 7 years and 258 days service. Possibly a father and son group. Provenance: A.A. Upfill-Brown Collection, December 1991

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