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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 115

Four: Private W.H. Hannam, Kimberley Town Guard, Late Sergeant Cape Mounted Rifles and Frontier Armed Police South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1877-8-9 (Segt. W.H. Hannam F.A.M. Police), rank officially corrected, with unofficial ´1880-81´ clasp, this loose on riband; Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-1897, two clasps, Basutoland, Bechuanaland (Sergt. W.H. Hannam.. C.M. Rifles); Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. W.H. Hannam. Kimberley Town Gd:); Kimberley Star 1899-1902 (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1900), lacking its top riband bar, scratch in obverse field of Q.S.A., otherwise generally good very fine (4) Estimate £ 800-900 Sergeant William Henry Hannam, born in England; prior to service in the Boer War he was employed at the Otto Kopje Mine and after the siege of Kimberley at the Premier Mine, Wesselton; admitted to Kimberley Hospital 19.3.1901; died 28.8.1901. South Africa 1877-79 published roll gives rank as ´Private´.

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