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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 48

Six: Regimental Sergeant Major W. Johnson, Royal Horse Artillery
Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (12232. Sergt. W. Johnson 1/2... R.A.), contact marks; Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (12232 S.Major. W. Johnson, R.H.A.); King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (12232 Sergt:-Maj: W. Johnson. R.H.A.); Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (12232. By. S. Maj: W. Johnson. R.A.); Army Meritorious Service, G.V.R., ´fixed suspension´ type (S-M. W. Johnson. R.H.A.); Khedive´s Star 1882, reverse engraved ´12232 Sgt. Mor [sic] W. Johnson 1-2 R.A. 1882´, light contact marks overall, generally very fine, unless otherwise stated (6)

12232 Regimental Sergeant Major William Johnson (1857-1948), born Aldington, Kent, 1857; attested for the Royal Artillery at Shorncliffe Camp in March 1875; served in Egypt with “I” Battery 2 Brigade and was present at the battle of Tel-El-Kebir; advanced Battery Sergeant Major, August 1883; awarded his L.S. & G.C. April 1893, and promoted to Sergeant Major, 1895; served in South Africa with 13 Brigade Divisional Staff, Royal Horse Artillery, and was discharged after 27 years´ service at Woolwich on 26.3.1902, where he was serving as Regimental Sergeant Major; died at Weedon, Northamptonshire.

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