Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878-9 (422 Pte. J. Venning. late 1/13th Foot) nearly extremely fine £450-550

John Venning was born in Pitminster, near Taunton, Somerset, c.1856. He enlisted into the 1/13th Regiment at Taunton on 14 April 1875, aged 19 years. With the regiment he served in South Africa, 1876-79, seeing service in the Sekhukhune Campaign 1878 and the Zulu War 1879. Venning died of disease at Durban, Natal, on 23 August 1879. With copied research on paper and C.D.