Lot Archive

Lot

№ 828

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20 September 2002

Hammer Price:
£310

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Surgeon General J. A. Cleary, Order of the Bath, Military Division, gold and enamel, bulbous centre, with gold buckle on ribbon; Egypt, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85; Queen’s Sudan; Queen’s South Africa, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Rel. of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek; King’s South Africa, 2 clasps; Khedive’s Star 1884-6; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (7) £180-220

Surgeon General Cleary was the Principal Medical Officer on Lines of Communication during the Second Boer War.