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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 188

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (26288 Tpr: W. A. Rowles. 58th Coy Imp: Yeo:), light contact marks, nearly extremely fine

Adolphus William Rowles was born in 1880 in Henley, Oxfordshire and was part of the 2nd Battalion Oxford Volunteers from 1899 to 1901, when he attested with the 58th Company Imperial Yeomanry at Reading. Rowles was stationed in South Africa from March 1901 until August 1902 and was discharged that year at Aldershot upon the termination of his engagement period. He tragically died only two years later of epilepsy, vertigo, and brain paralysis at age 24; sold together with copied research.

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£140

Starting price
£130