Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (27719 A. Br. F. Wild, 66th Bty. R.F.A.) edge bruising, contact marks, fine £140-180

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

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The 66th Battery R.F.A. lost four of its guns at Colenso, 15 December 1899. Lieutenant The Hon. Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts, K.R.R.C. and Corporal George Edward Nurse, 66th Battery R.F.A. gained the V.C. in attempting to save them.

With copied roll extract for Wild.