Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Wales Borderers, Prize Medal for Boxing, silver, obverse: engraved with regimental badge and ‘Light Weight Competition, Chakrata 1900’ around, reverse: engraved ‘Won by No. 4045 Pte. T. Fitchett, 1st S.W. Borderers’, with scroll suspension, 40mm., good very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Thomas Fitchett, a collier from Merthyr, enlisted in the South Wales Borderers in October 1892, aged 19 years, his appointment being approved by Colonel C. J. Bromhead.