Pair: Private J. King, 2nd Dragoons, late 4th Dragoon Guards

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4311 Pte., 4th Dragoon Gds.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4311 Pte., 2nd Dragoons) mounted as worn, very fine (2) £220-260

Two squadrons of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards served in 3 Brigade, Mohmand Field Force. Private J. King, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) was wounded at Uitval Nek, on 11 July 1900. One squadron of the 2nd Dragoons took part in the action in which a Boer force commanded by De la Rey defeated a British force 18 miles to the west of Pretoria. 80 men were killed or wounded and nearly 200 men and 2 guns captured (Ref. The Great Boer War, by Conan Doyle).