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№ 321 x

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8 September 2015

Hammer Price:
£1,600

Pair: Sergeant B. C. Kearns, Kimberley Town Guard, late One Star Diamond Contingent

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878 (Tpr. B. C. Kearns, One Star Diamd. Contgt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Serjt. B. C. Kearns, Kimberley Town Gd.), nearly extremely fine and a rare combination of awards (2)

169 South Africa Medals were awarded to the One Star Diamond Contingent, all bar one of them with the clasp for ‘1878’. Kearns subsequently served in No. 1 Company, ‘F’ Section of the Kimberley Town Guard’s Medical Corps.