Auction Catalogue

25 February 1999

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 135

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25 February 1999

Hammer Price:
£1,050

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, B.C.A. 1899-1900 (Capt. J. H. W. Guise, Scot. Rif.) toned, extremely fine and unique to the regiment £500-700

Captain John Henry Wingfield Guise died of Blackwater fever during the operations in British Central Africa 1899-1900. He was the son of Lieut-General Sir John Charles Guise, V.C., C.B., and grandson of General Sir John Guise, G.C.B., the Peninsula hero.