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Auction: 25112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 141

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (5934., Sapr W. Spencer, R.E.), light contact marks otherwise very fine

104 Medals to this unit.

Walter Spencer served with the West Yorkshire Royal Engineers (Volunteers). He re-enlisted on 1 April 1908 and served during the Great War with the West Riding Division Royal Engineers and entered the war in Egypt on 30 March 1915, he served as a Corporal and had further service numbers, 76 and 478002. He was disembodied on 10 January 1919 and is additionally entitled to a 1914-15 Star Trio and a Silver War Badge (522963) due to the gunshot wounds received.

His name and number appears on the Memorial at Sheffield Town Hall for those who served in South Africa 1899-1902.

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£80

Starting price
£50