Pair: Private R. C. Penn, Coldstream Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (1249 Pte. R. C. Penn, Cldstm: Gds:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (1249 Pte. R. C. Penn. Coldstream Guards.) mounted for wear, generally very fine (2) £160-200

Robert Charles Penn was born in Bicester, Oxfordshire, and attested for the Coldstream Guards at London in December 1897. He served with the Regiment in South Africa, October 1899 - July 1902, and was discharged 6 December 1909. In later life he was employed as the Commissionaire for the Palace Cinema in High Wycombe.

Sold with two portrait photographs of the recipient, one in uniform, and a Boer War commemorative handkerchief.