Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (242. Pte. S. H. Bown Cape Police) surname partially officially corrected, minor edge bruise and contact marks, very fine £120-£160

Sidney Herbert Bown (also listed as Brown on the medal roll, which accounts for the fact that his surname is corrected on the medal) served with the Cape Police in South Africa during the Boer War, and was severely wounded at Hoopstad on 23 October 1900 (entitled to Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Defence of Kimberley, Relief of Mafeking, Orange Free State, and Transvaal; and the King’s South Africa Medal with two clasps).

Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.