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

№ 252

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£190

Pair: Gunner D. Jennings, Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Transvaal (75466 Gnr., R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (75466 Gnr., R.F.A.) contact marks, nearly very fine and scarce (2) £120-140

Ex Lovell Collection 1978.

David Jennings was attached to No. 1 (New Zealand) Battery of the Rhodesian Field Force, from April 1900 to September 1901. He was then posted to No. 9 Local Ammunition Column. Only one officer and 17 men R.A. earned the clasp for Rhodesia.