Auction Catalogue

12 May 2015

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Lot

№ 554

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12 May 2015

Hammer Price:
£550

Pair: Colour Sergeant F. Roberts, Yorkshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (3416 C. Sgt., Yorkshire Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small reverse letters (3416 C. Sgt., York. R.) good very fine (2) £200-240

3416 Colour Sergeant F. Roberts, 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, was killed in action at Slingersfontein, 15 January 1900. He was interred at Colesberg Military Cemetery. Note: the published casualty roll gives the service number incorrectly as ‘3146’.