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Pair: Lieutenant C. C. Allsop, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, who was wounded in the action at Tweefontein on 14 November 1901
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Liuet. C. C. Allsop, Kitchener’s F.S.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. C. C. Allsopp. Kitchener’s F.S.), note surname spelling, edge bruise to the last, otherwise very fine or better (2) £400-500
Allsop was commissioned from the Natal Mounted Rifles into Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts in 1901, in which year he was wounded in the fierce action at Tweefontein on 14 November. On that occasion, the 2nd Fighting Scouts acted as the rearguard; sold with copied medal and clasp roll verification.
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