Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. F. F. Tarver, K.O. Scot. Bord.) clasps tailor’s copies, claw refitted, good very fine £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers.

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Francis Feral Tarver was born on 11 March 1881. From the Militia, commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Oxford Light Infantry on 19 October 1901. Served in South Africa attached to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers - serving in the operations in Cape Colony, August-October 1901 and the Orange River Colony, November 1901-31 May 1902. Clasps confirmed in copied roll extracts.