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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 190

(x) Three: Private A. Brown, Somerset Light Infantry

India General Service 1895-1908, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (2990 [SIC] Pte A. Brown 1st Bn. Som. Lt. Infy:); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State; Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (2890 Pte A. Brown, Somerset: Li. Infy.); King's South Africa 1901-1902, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2890 Pte A. Brown. Somerset: L. I.), post loose on first, overall contact wear, nearly very fine (3)

A. Brown appears on the medal roll for 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry as part of Punjab Command during the conflict on the Punjab Frontier 1897-8. Transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry for the Second Boer War Brown joined them in travelling to South Africa. The Somerset's took part in fighting in the earliest phase of the war at Benter's Spruit and Spion Kop but managed to missed the worst of the fighting being far more heavily engaged at the successful breakthrough at Tugela Heights where they fought through the hills north of Colenso. Fourteen days of fighting bought the battalion 11 'mentions' and two D.C.M.s but at the cost of 3 officers and 11 men. Brown survived this fighting and the later guerrilla phase of the war, being marked on the medal rolls as 'Discharged'.

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