Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (5059 Pte. F. Rustell. 1st Hamp: Regt.) suspension a little bent and loose, otherwise good very fine £300-360

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for Campaigns in Africa.

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Frederick Rustell was born in the Parish of Hilsea, Portsmouth, and enlisted into the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 23 April 1897. He served overseas in the East Indies, September 1898 to February 1903, and in Aden, February 1903 to June 1904, taking part in the Somaliland campaign and action at Jidballi. He was discharged on 23 April 1909, on completion of his first period of engagement. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.