Auction Catalogue

13 December 2007

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 947

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13 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£5,800

A Boer War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant C. Hitchcock, 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade

Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (8584 Serjt. C. Hitchcock, 2nd Rifle Bde.); Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (8584 Sgt. C. Hitchcock, 2/R. Bde.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (8584 Sgt. C. Hitchcock, Rifle Brigade); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8584 Serjt. C. Hitchcock, Rifle Brigade); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, the group mounted for wearing, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £1800-2200

D.C.M. London Gazette 31 December 1902; Army Order 10 of 1903.