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Auction: 18002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 279

(x) Durban Mounted Rifles

Raised in 1875, the D.M.R. accompanied Colonel Pearson's Southern Force in the invasion of Zululand in 1879.

72 Medals were awarded to the Durban Mounted Rifles, all of them with the '1879' clasp.

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Tr. Snell. Dn. Md. Rifles.), bent suspension post and tightened claw, edge bruise and wear to obverse high relief, otherwise nearly very fine


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