Auction Catalogue

22 September 2000

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 636

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22 September 2000

Hammer Price:
£160

Pair: Private A. T. Root, Yorkshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Belfast (4534 Pte., Yorkshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4534 Pte., York. Regt.) edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine and better (2) £140-180

Severely wounded at Paardeberg on 18 February 1900. Sold with copy service papers which show him to have been a musician and Bandsman in the regiment.