Auction Catalogue

12 May 2015

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

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Lot

№ 216

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12 May 2015

Hammer Price:
£2,000

The B.S.A.C. Medal awarded to Trooper S. Bruce, Matabeleland Relief Force, who was wounded and taken prisoner in the famous ‘Jameson Raid’

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Troopr. S. Bruce, M.R.F.), extremely fine £1500-1600

Bruce - the only man with this surname and the initial ‘S.’ on the published roll - was wounded by a gunshot in his right thigh during the Jameson Raid; sold with brief research.