Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein (659 Ar. Sjt. F. E. Bloore, A.O.C.) minor edge bruise, good very fine £160-200

Armourer Serjeant Frederick Edward Bloore, Army Ordnance Department, attached 2nd Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, died of disease at Bloemfontein, 20 May 1900. Probate was granted to James Frederick Bloore, gunsmith, in 1900. The value of his estate was £118. 10s. 0d.

Sold with a fine portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform; original document granting probate to James Frederick Bloore - grandfather of the above; portrait photograph of Queen Victoria on document reading: ‘Transvaal War. This portrait and a donation of One Sovereign is presented by the Royal Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund to Beatrice May Bloore, daughter of 1st Armr. Sergeant Frederick E. Bloore, 2nd Shropshire Light Infantry who died on 20 May 1900 at B’fontein South Africa.’ and a ‘South Africa 1900’ Christmas tin (empty).