Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Johannesburg (7723 Pte W. Truagust, Lanc. Fus.), edge bruise to reverse, good very fine, rare clasp to unit £400-500

Private Walter Truagust, 3rd Lancashire Fusiliers, was one of a company of mounted infantry composed of 144 officers and men who sailed from Malta to South Africa on 21.2.1900 aboard S.S. Pavonia. The company, under the command of the unfortunately named Captain Pine-Coffin, was formed of one section each of the 3rd Royal Warwickshie Regiment, 3rd Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and 2nd Derbyshire Regiment. Arriving in South Africa in March 1900, the ‘Malta Mounted Infantry’ as they were known, were soon involved in operations to relieve Wepener, having their baptism of fire at Bushman’s Kop on 21.4.1900. Wepener was entered on 24.4.1900. In June 1900 the Malta Company was posted to the 9th Battalion Mounted Infantry and was part of that unit when the war ended.
In the Great War, 7723 Lance-Sergeant Walter Treagust (note different spelling), 2nd battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, entered the France / Flanders theatre of war on 1.11.1914 and was killed in action on 23.4.1918. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

Sold with copied research details, confirming the above clasps and that for ‘South Africa 1901’.