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Pair: Sergeant G. Barnett, 3rd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Ashanti Star 1896; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Relief of Ladysmith (4277 Sgt., K.R.R.C.) extremely fine and scarce (2) £350-400
Sergeant G. Barnett served as a Corporal in the Ashanti campaign of 1896, one of 25 riflemen under Captain W. S. Key who formed one section of No. 5 Company, Special Service Corps. He was subsequently one of 12 men of this detachment to serve during the Boer War. Barnett died of enteric fever in Durban on 15 February 1900.
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