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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 110

(x) Pair: Lance-Corporal H. Swift, King's Royal Rifle Corps

Ashanti Star 1896; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (6111 Pte. H. Swift, K.R.R.C.), officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (2)

Harry Swift was born in 1872 at Wellington, Shropshire, and attested for the King's Royal Rifle Corps at Winchester on 29 December 1890, noting previous experience with the 3rd (Shropshire Militia) Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Promoted Lance-Corporal on 16 December 1891 and posted to Gibraltar, he reverted to Private two weeks later on account of misconduct. Swift saw subsequent service in West Africa from 7 December 1895-22 February 1896 (Star) and later served with the 3rd Battalion, in South Africa from 4 November 1899-25 August 1902 (Queen's Medal & 5 clasps; King's Medal & 2 clasps), being discharged on 26 December 1902; sold with copied service papers confirming medal entitlement, together with an erased King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, representative of his service.

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Sold for
£270