Auction Catalogue

25 February 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 629

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25 February 1998

Hammer Price:
£180

Pair: Lieutenant Colonel T. F. Ritchie, Manchester Regiment, later Somerset Light Infantry
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902,
5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901, S.A. 1902 (Lieut., Manch. Rgt.); British War Medal (Lt. Col.) minor edge bruising to first, otherwise good very fine (2) £150-200

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Fraser Ritchie was born in 1875, he joined the Manchester Regiment April 1900, transferring to the Somerset Light Infantry May 1908. He was awarded the D.S.O. London Gazette 14 January 1916, Despatches London Gazette 1 January 1916, 4 January 1917 and 18 December 1917.