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№ 412

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9 October 2024

Hammer Price:
£95

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (10089 Pte. C. T. Robson. 55th. Coy. 5th. Impl: Yeo:) contact marks, slight edge digs, very fine £80-£100

Charles Thomas Robson, a Cartman from St. Andrews, Northumberland, was born around 1877. He attested at Newcastle upon Tyne, into the 55th (Northumberland) Company, Imperial Yeomanry, for service in South Africa during the Boer War. Also serving with the South African Constabulary, attached to the Provisional Transvaal Constabulary, he was discharged at Home on 16 June 1901.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts confirming clasp entitlement.