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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 608

(x) Swellendam Town Guard

Approximately 55 Medals were awarded to the unit in September 1906, of which eight were returned. In signing off the unit's medal roll at Cape Town in July 1906, Captain W. S. Hutchison, the C.O., stated:

'The dates mentioned in the certificate on the medal roll viz: - 28th Augt. to 4th Septr. 1901 & 13th to 18th Decr. 1901, are those on which the Town Guard were called out for active military duty, to man the forts, when the enemy was in the vicinity of the Town. I hereby certify that the Town Guard were called out for guard duty for a period of 12 months from February 1901 to February 1902.'

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Captain W. S. Hutchison. Swellendam T.G.), good very fine

Sold with copied roll entry.

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Sold for
£210