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Auction: 25112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 165

(x) King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (14037 Corpl: E. Rigden. A.S.C.), sometime brooched with traces of solder to reverse at 3 and 9 o'clock otherwise about very fine

Edward Rigden was born and raised in Canterbury, Kent and worked as a clerk before enlisting into the Army in 1898 aged 18 years old. He joined the Army Service Corps and is further entitled to a Queen's South Africa Medal with 6 clasps, Rigden died of disease at Zeerust, in northern South Africa on 24 January 1901.

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