Pair: Private C. Waller, 60th Rifles

South Africa 1834-53 (C. Waller. 2nd. Bn. 60th. Rifles.); China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (Chas. Waller. 2nd. Bn. 60th. Rl. Rifles) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £600-£800

Provenance: Irvin Mortenson Collection; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008

Charles Waller was born in Guildford, Surrey, and attested for the 60th Rifles on 8 January 1846. He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Third Kaffier War, 1851-53, and subsequently in China during the Second Opium War, being present at the capture of the Taku Forts in August 1860. He died of disease at Pekin on 5 October 1860.

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