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Pair: Staff Serjeant D. Robinson, South African Postal Corps, late Captain, Port Elizabeth Town Guard
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Capt., P. Elzbth. T.G.); British War Medal 1914-20 (S/Sjt., S.A.P.C.) good very fine (2) £140-180
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers.
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Douglas Robinson was born in Liscard, Cheshire. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for the South African Expeditionary Forces, at Cape Town on 17 April 1916, aged 54 years. On his attestation form he gave as his previous service as Cape Town Highlanders, 1885-88 and Port Elizabeth Town Guard, 1900-05. In the Great War he served in the South African Postal Corps and discharged as a Staff Sergeant on 23 October 1920. With copied roll extract and service papers.
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