Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Transvaal (7112 Pte. T. Ritchie, Gordon Highrs. M.I.), good very fine £180-220

Ritchie was wounded at Bonnefoi, near Carolina in the Eastern Transvaal on 17 May 1901. The previous day the columns led by Lieutenant-Colonels G. E. Benson and W. Douglas had met at Bonnefoi to chase out small groups of Burghers holding out in the Upper Nkhomati Valley; see A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, by H and M. Jones for further details.