Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

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

Lot

№ 184

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£320

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (17357 Dvr. W. H. Morgan, 4th Bty. R.F.A.) light pawn broker’s mark in reverse field, otherwise extremely fine £200-250

Driver William Henry Morgan was reported missing in action at Klerksdorp on 25 February 1902, and declared dead, killed in action, on 23 March 1902. Sold with a copy of the battery commander’s report of this action, in which Driver Morgan was the only man killed. From the column of some 500 men, comprising men from Paget’s Horse, the Northumberland Fusiliers, the left section of 4 Battery and a Pom-Pom, the Boer’s took over 200 prisoners.