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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 355

Three: Private G. Cordwent, Royal West Kent Regiment, who earned a Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal for at act of lifesaving at Portland on 29 July 1890

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (1881 Pte. G. Cordwent, 2:Rl: W: Kent Regt.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, (1881 Pte. G. Cordwent. Rl. W. Kent. Regt.); Royal Humane Society Lifesaving Medal, bronze, Successful (Private G. Cordwent, Royal West Kent Regt., 29th: July, 1890.), with top riband buckle, very fine (3)

Royal Humane Society Case No. 24972.

George Cordwent was born in Charlton and joined the 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment at Maidstone in April 1887, having already seen service with the 4th Militia Battalion. He was awarded the Royal Humane Society Lifesaving Medal in Bronze for a Successful Act, this being for an incident at Portland on 29 July 1890. Cordwent was then posted to the 1st Battalion out in India in December 1891 and was discharged in April 1899. A member of the Supplementary Reserve, he was recalled in October 1899 and posted to the 2nd Battalion out in South Africa in March 1900. Present on operations in the Cape Colony and the Transvaal, including Wittebergen, he served through to the end of the war, and was posted home in August 1902, and discharged in September 1903. Cordwent latterly lived in Willesden, where he worked as a horse van driver for the railway, and died in July 1943; sold with copied research.


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Estimate
£160 to £200

Starting price
£120

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