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17 & 18 May 2016

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Lot

№ 245

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17 May 2016

Hammer Price:
£500

Five: Sapper O. T. Farthing, South African Engineering Corps and South African Medical Corps, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps - a survivor from the wreck of the Warren Hastings

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (7495 Pte., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (7495 Pte., K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (Spr., S.A.E.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Pte., S.A.M.C.); Bilingual Victory Medal 1914-19 (Spr., S.A.E.C.) good very fine (5) £400-460

Private O. T. Farthing, King’s Royal Rifle Corps was a survivor from the troopship Warren Hastings when she ran aground and was wrecked off the Island of Reunion, on 14 January 1897.

With copied extract from the O.M.R.S. Journal which lists men of the K.R.R.C. involved in the wreck.