British Campaign and Gallantry Medals

Pair: Private O. C. Hedge, Scots Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Wittebergen, Belfast (6989 Pte. O. C. Hedge, Scots G..); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (6989 Pte. O. Hedge, Scots Guards) edge bruising, contact marks, fine (2) £100-140

Owen Charles Hedge was born in Benger, Hertford. A Groom by occupation, he attested for the Scots Guards at London on 6 November 1885, aged 19 years, 7 months. With the Guards, he served in South Africa, March 1900-October 1902. Private Hedge was discharged at the termination of his second period of engagement on 5 November 1906. As an ‘Army Pensioner’ he died on 7 January 1949. With copied attestation papers and death certificate.