Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (4931 Pte. A. Watson, Hampshire Regt.) contact marks, some edge bruising, good very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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Arthur George Watson was born in Madras, India. A Mender by occupation, he attested for the Hampshire Regiment at London on 24 October 1896, aged 14 years. Posted to the 2nd Battalion he served in South Africa, April 1902-September 1903; Malta, September 1903-December 1905; Bermuda, December 1905-September 1907 and South Africa, September 1907-December 1908. Sold with copied service papers.