Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (102 Tpr. F. C. W. Mercer, Lumsden’ Horse), extremely fine £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to Lumsden's Horse.

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Trooper Frederick Charles Warren Mercer served in ‘A’ Company, No.4 Section, Lumsden’s Horse. He is mentioned in a letter by Captain B. W. Holmes as being involved in an action with a maxim gun against the Boers, during which he held the horses whilst under heavy fire [The History of Lumden’s Horse by H.H.S. Pearse refers]