Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (593 Pte. H. O’D. French, Impl. Lt. Infy.) good very 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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Harry O’Donovan French attested at Durban on 15 November 1899. At the battle of Spion Kop, 24 January 1900, he was reported as being ‘Missing in Action’. Having been captured, one of 64 to the Imperial Light Infantry, he remained a prisoner-of-war of the Boers until his release on 6 June 1900. With copied attestation paper, casualty roll extract and some notes.