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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 74

Pair: Trooper E.B. Gooyer, Cape Railway Sharpshooters, Late Southern Rhodesia Volunteers and Imperial Light Horse Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal (1381 Pte. E.B. Gooyer. Cape Rly: Shptrs:); King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (716 Tpr E.B. Gooyer. S. Rhod Vols.), top lugs neatly removed from last, lacquered, minor official correction to unit on KSA, nearly extremely fine (2) Estimate £ 300-400 1265 Trooper Edward Barrand Gooyer, enlisted as 716 Trooper in the South Rhodesian Volunteers, 20.12.1899, and served with them in Rhodesia and in the Transvaal, and was present at the Relief of Mafeking; transferred as 1082 Trooper, 1st Imperial Light Horse, 25.10.1900, and served with them in the Transvaal; transferred as 1381 Trooper, Cape Railway Sharpshooters, 3.5.1901, and served with them in the Cape Colony; discharged, 7.8.1901; re-enlisted in the Cape Railway Sharpshooters as 1265 Trooper, 14.9.1901; discharged, 13.3.1902. Trooper Gooyer´s full clasp entitlement for his Q.S.A. is Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal, and Cape Colony; the Cape Colony clasp, which he earned with a different unit from the other three, is listed as ´Recovered and returned to Woolwich´ (Medal Roll refers). Provenance: A.A. Upfill-Brown Collection, December 1991

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