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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 561

Pair: Gunner T. Norgrove, 10th Company Western Division Royal Garrison Artillery

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Laing's Nek, Belfast (32514 Gnr: T. Norgrove, 10th Coy W. D., R.G.A.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (32514 Gnr: T. Norgrove. R.G.A.), contact marks and wear overall, edge bruise to second, overall nearly very fine (2)

Thomas Norgrove was born at Kilrush, Clare in 1880 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Limerick on 29 December 1898. Posted to the 10th Company, Western Division, Royal Garrison Division as a Gunner he entered the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa on 3 February 1900. After the war he joined the garrison of Gibraltar on 22 September 1902, being promoted Bombardier there on 30 September.

Seeing further inter-war service at Malta and Hong Kong by the outbreak of the Great War he was stationed in Mauritius with the rank of Sergeant. Likely due to his Boer War experience Norgrove was posted to South Africa on 30 November 1915. As the Allied war effort there wound down - in the wake of the fall of German South-West Africa - he joined the British forces further north in British East Africa. Promoted Battery Sergeant-Major here the climate got the better of him and he returned to Britain on 29 January 1917. Norgrove was finally discharged on 21 June 1920 after and impressive 21 years with the Colours.

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