Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 23

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25 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£200

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (3961 Pte. J. Tierney, 8/Hrs.) very fine £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War.

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With copied roll extracts where he is listed as ‘Invalided’; also listing medal returned on 18 October 1912 and re-issued on 2 May 1913, and with two copied pages from the defaulters record book, listing John Tierney, 8th Hussars being on trial at Volksrust, 17 June 1901. A note elsewhere states it was for ‘violence against a superior officer.’