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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 111

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (4427 Pte P. Richards, 1st L. N. Lanc: Regt.), slight edge bruise, very fine

Percy Richards was born at Tottenham, London and enlisted at Colombo, Ceylon on 24 June 1898. The unit was still present in Ceylon upon the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War and were given the task of guarding the Boer prisoners of war transported to the Island. Richards later joined the war in South Africa in person, arriving on 5 December 1899 however he did not take to the climate and was invalided on 14 November. Returning to Britain he served there for another 10 years before being discharged on 23 June 1910.

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