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Auction: 8016 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 141

An Unusual Campaign Group of Four to Sergeant A.H. Appleby, Royal Welch Fusiliers Later Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff and South African Native Infantry Corps India General Service 1854-95, one clasp Burma 1885-7 (774 Lce Corpl A. Appleby 1st Bn R.W. Fus), suspension slack; Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Cape Colony (Corpl: A. Appleby. I.Y. HP. Staff); British War and Victory Medals, bi-lingual type (Sjt A.H. Appleby. S.A.N.L.C. ), last two officially renamed, very fine or better, withthe following related items: - Two portrait photographs of the recipient in uniform - Contemporary photograph of the Hunt Ward Hospital, South Africa, 1900, and various other ephemera including a letter to the recipient from his ´sweetheart´ stamped and dated 27.3.1919 (4) Estimate £ 220-260 Staff Sergeant Alfred Appleby, born Colchester, Essex; joined 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers 1884; discharged 1896; subsequently served in the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff and the South African Native Infantry Corps.

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