Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 256

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£55

British War Medal 1914-20 (364 Cpl. Moses, 1/K.A.R) with usual crudely impressed naming, edge bruising and polished, nearly very fine £20-30

Moses, a member of the Atonga tribe, enlisted in the King’s African Rifles in January 1901, and served in the German East Africa Campaign, being wounded by a gunshot at Kanga in 1914. He was discharged at Zomba in late September 1918; sold with an old duplicate copy of the recipient’s attestation and service record, circa 1920.