Auction Catalogue

22 June 1999

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 159

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22 June 1999

Hammer Price:
£850

King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (646 Serjt. N. A. Davidson, Doyle’s A.S.) suspension claw re-pinned, otherwise very fine and rare to this Australian unit £30-40

Doyle’s Australian Scouts was a corps of specially selected men, raised by Captain R. D. Doyle, D.S.O., of the New South Wales Forces. The officers and men were not, however, restricted to those from New South Wales. This small corps did excellent scouting work in the latter stages of the war.