Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Rev. W. E. deBurgh) the clasps with some unofficial rivets, otherwise good very fine £150-200

The Reverend William Edward De Burgh served as a Chaplain to the Troops during the Boer War. He died in the Cape Colony on 4 September 1902 of disease contracted whilst on active service. Sold with confirmation of clasp entitlement; two laser copied photographs; and a quantity of copied research material, including lengthy extracts from his parish magazine detailing letters written by DeBurgh from South Africa