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9 & 10 May 2018

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№ 982

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10 May 2018

Hammer Price:
£260

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, last clasp loose on riband, as issued (15416 Tpr: H. S. Carew, 75th. Coy. 18th. Imp: Yeo:) minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £200-240

William Stanley Carew was born in Padstow, Cornwall, in 1878 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Cockspur Street, London on 24 March 1900, having previously served with the Duke of Cornwall’s Volunteers. He served with the 75th (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 6 April 1900 to 2 July 1901, and was discharged at Aldershot on 24 June 1901, after 1 year and 98 days’ service.