Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (25848 Gnr: G. Partridge, 2nd. S.D., R.G.A.) initial officially corrected, nearly extremely fine £80-120

George Partridge was born in Leicester in 1879 and attested there for the Royal Artillery on 31 January 1898, having previously served with the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. He served with the 2nd Company Southern Division Royal Garrison Artillery in Gibraltar from 5 March 1898 to 21 January 1900, and in South Africa from 22 January 1900 to 12 February 1904, and saw action during the Boer War with the 1st Maxim Royal Artillery ‘Pom Pom’ Battery from 28 March 1900 (additionally entitled to the King’s South Africa Medal). He was discharged medically unfit on 15 March 1904.