Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private S. Dowell, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, wounded at Blackbush Spruit, 2 December 1901

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (8832 Pte., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (8832 Pte., 2-K.R.R.C.), this a late issue, good very fine and better (2) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 60th Rifles and King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

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Joseph Sydney Dowell was born in Birmingham. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for the K.R.R.C. on 12 November 1894, aged 19 years. With the 2nd Battalion he served in South Africa, April 1897-April 1899; India, April-September 1899, and South Africa, September 1899-January 1902. In the Boer War he was wounded, suffering a gunshot wound to his left hip and buttock at Blackbush Spruit, 2 December 1901. As a result he was invalided to England in January 1902 and was discharged as medically unfit on 30 April 1902. During the Great War he served at ‘Home’, with the K.R.R. Depot, 19 October 1914-9 January 1919. Being discharged as surplus to requirements, his home address was given as ‘30 Shipway Road, Haymills, Birmingham’. Sold with about 45 copied sheets of service papers.