Auction Catalogue

12 May 2015

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№ 382 x

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12 May 2015

Hammer Price:
£600

The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Private C. Butt, Dorsetshire Regiment, who was killed in action at the defence of Fort Itala on 26 September 1901

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (2251 Pte. A. Butt, Dorset Rgt.), good very fine £350-400

A soldier of the 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, Butt would have been attached to 5th Division’s Mounted Infantry Battalion. He was buried on Itala summit; sold with copied medal roll extract.