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17 & 18 May 2016

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Lot

№ 209

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17 May 2016

Hammer Price:
£550

Pair: Captain F. H. Hemingway, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, late Bechuanaland Border Police

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893 (1696. Troopr. F. H. Hemmingway. B.B. Police.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. F. H. Hemingway, 4/K. Shropshire L.I.) dark toned, extremely fine (2) £400-450

Frances Herbert Hemingway was appointed Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry on 3 April 1900, formerly Lieutenant, 4th Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment); Captain, 14 February 1903; resigned his commission 1 April 1904.