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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 165

The Queen's South Africa Medal awarded to Private A. Brown, 1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry, who died of disease at Kroonstad in 1900

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (3191 Pte. A. Brown, Oxford: Lt. Inft.), one minor edge knock, otherwise good very fine

Albert Brown was born in 1869 in Wendover, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire to Edward Brown, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Sarah, a 'strawplaiter'. Brown is recorded on the 1871 Census at age 3 as residing there with his family. At some point, however, the Brown family moved to Walton, Aylesbury and were living there at the time of the 1881 Census. He married Mary Ann Harding in Aylesbury in 1890 after which they lived together in Walton with their newborn daughter Ellen, with Brown working as a railway labourer.

Brown served with the 3rd Battalion (King's Own Royal Buckinghamshire Militia) Oxfordshire Light Infantry ahead of being mobilised for South Africa in early 1900 as a Private in the 1st Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry to serve in the Second Boer War.

Brown was not to be long in South Africa, however, as he sadly died of enteric disease at Kroonstad on 6 July 1900, leaving behind a wife and three children. He is commemorated on the Coombe Hill Memorial, dedicated to the Buckinghamshire men who died during the Second Boer War, as well as the Oxfordshire Light Infantry Boer War Memorial at the Edward Brooks Barracks, Shippon, Oxfordshire; sold together with copied research including medal roll.

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