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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 607

x Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between last two clasps (Lieut. D.H.V. Bengough. Rl. War. Rgt.), good very fine, together with two South Africa 1900 Christmas tins, and a newspaper cutting recording the recipient´s death Estimate £ 240-280 Captain Douglas Henry Victor Bengough, born November 1878; the son of Major-General Sir H.M. Bengough; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 7.5.1898; promoted Lieutenant, 24.1.1900; served with the Regiment in South Africa; Captain, 11.6.1902; seconded for service with the Egyptian Army, 4.5.1905; died of blackwater fever in the Sudan whilst on active duty, 1907. For the K.C.B. Group of Medals to Major-General Sir H.M. Bengough see Lot 438; and for the Great War Medals to Miss I.V. Bengough see Lot 484.

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