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№ 1090

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20 July 2017

Hammer Price:
£320

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (30797 Dr: G. Smith, P, B, R.H.A.) very fine £180-220

George Smith was born in Southwold, Suffolk, and attested for the Royal Artillery at the town of his birth, in October 1898. He served with ‘P’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery during the Second Boer War, and died of Enteric Fever at Klerksdorp, 13 April 1902.