Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Sergeant W. F. Abbott, Royal Engineers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Paardeberg, Transvaal (123 Sapr., R.E.); King’s South Africa, 2 clasps (123 Sapr., R.E.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (123 Sapr., R.E.); 1914 Star (123 Sapr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (123 T.Sjt., R.E.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine and better (6) £180-200

Approximately 58 engineers of the Telegraph Section took part in the 3rd and 4th expeditions in Somaliland 1902-04.