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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 112

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (7242. Pte. A. Nash. Vl. Co. Oxfd. L.I.), the unit officially corrected, good very fine

Amos Nash was born at Hughenden, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in January 1873, the son of Amos and Ellen Nash. He attested with the Oxfordshire Light Infantry Volunteer Company in January 1900 and was on of the original batch of 111 N.C.O.s and men posted to South Africa on 20 March 1900. He served there for over a year, returned to Britain on 23 April 1901 to great ceremony, as reported in The Times of 18 May, 1901, which states:

'The return from South Africa yesterday of the Volunteer Company of the 1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry was the occasion of a great patriotic demonstration at Oxford. The special train arrived from Southampton a few minutes before one o'clock, and the men were met at the station by the Mayor and the members of the Corporation in their robes, the Regimental band of the County Battalion, the University Corps, the City Companies of Volunteers, the members of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, and Church Lads' Brigade. Large crowds assembled in the streets, and as the procession proceeded to the Cathedral, where a thanksgiving service was held, there were deafening cheers. Many of the men were carried on the shoulders of undergraduates and others. The Cathedral was crowded. The service was conducted by the Bishop Designate of Oxford, Dr. Paget, the other members of the Chapter present being Canons Ince, Moberly, and Driver. Later, the Mayor gave a luncheon in the municipal buildings. The toast of "Our Guests 11 was very heartily drunk, and Captain Lathy, in reply, referred to the praise bestowed upon the Company by every Commanding Officer under whom they had served, and added that the proudest recollection of his life would be the year in which he commanded in South Africa the Company of the Oxford and Bucks Volunteers.'

Nash was discharged on 24 May 1901 and died at Wycombe, Buckinghamshire on 29 June 1941; sold together with copied research.

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