Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1215

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£65

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (23013 Pte. W. Gooderidge, Imp. Yeo.), officially re-impressed naming, edge bruising, very fine £50-70

Walter Gooderidge was born in Bradford, Yorkshire and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in January 1901, aged 20 years. He subsequently served out in South Africa from March 1901 to August 1902 and was discharged from the 4th (Glamorganshire) Company on his return to the U.K. in the following month; sold with copied service papers.