Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Private G. Fear, Army Service Corps, late Lincolnshire Regiment

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3696 Pte., 1/Lin. R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (3696 Pte., Lincoln Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (M-286348 Pte., A.S.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (3696 Pte., 1st Linc. R.) some contact marks, very fine and better (5) £350-400

George Fear was born in Leicester. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Lincolnshire Regiment on 28 October 1893, aged 18 years, 5 months. With the regiment he served in Malta, February 1895-February 1897; Egypt and the Sudan, February 1897-October 1898; India, October 1898-February 1902, and South Africa, February-September 1902. He was discharged in October 1909 but re-engaged in the A.S.C. for service in the Great War. Sold with copied service papers.