Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (5609 Sgt. C. A. C. Plowden, 1st Essex Regt.) extremely fine £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to the Essex Regiment from the Collection of Jack Webb.

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Sergeant C. A. C. Plowden was wounded at Paardeberg on 10 March 1900, and died of his wounds on 2 May 1900. He is commemorated on the memorial to the Essex Regiment in Warley Garrison Church, and also on a memorial in the Chapel at Bedford Grammar School where he was educated.