Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg (6013 Pte. R. Rusted, Yorkshire Regt) minor edge nicks, good very fine

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the West Yorkshire (14th Foot) and Yorkshire (19th Foot) Regiments.

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Richard Rusted was born in Metfield, Norfolk (now in Suffolk), and attested for the Yorkshire Regiment at Malton, in March 1899. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Second Boer War, and received a ‘gunshot wound left thigh’ at Paardeberg, 23 February 1900. He was discharged ‘Medically Unfit’, 30 November 1900.