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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 815

Pair: Private E. Hewitt, Scots Guards

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, Transvaal (113 Pte. E. Hewitt. Scots Gds.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (113 Pte. E. Hewitt. Scots Guards.), file marks to rivets between second and third clasps of first, otherwise good very fine (2)


Ernest Hewitt was born in 1872 at Chichester, the son of James Hewitt of Chichester, West Sussex. He attested at London for the Scots Guards on 7 July 1893 and served in South Africa from 15 March 1900-4 August 1902, being discharged on 6 January 1905; sold with copied service papers confirming clasp entitlement.

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Sold for
£250

Starting price
£80