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Three: Private H. Wide, Rifle Brigade
British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (1968. Pte. H. J. Wide. 2/Rif. Bde.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1968 Pte. H. Wide, Rifle Brigade.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1968 Pte. H. Wide. Rifle Brigade M.I.) lightly polished, light contact marks overall, generally very fine or better and scarce (3) £600-800
Provenance: M. Haines Collection, DNW, December 2002.
Henry James Wide was born in Taunton, Somerset, and attested for the Rifle Brigade, 2 January 1892. He passed the course for Mounted Infantry duties at Aldershot in June 1895, and served with the 2nd Battalion contingent of the Mounted Infantry Force in Rhodesia and Mashonaland in 1896. Both the 2nd and 4th Battalions of the Rifle Brigade supplied an officer and 30 men for this campaign. Returning home in June 1897 Wide went back to South Africa on the outbreak of the Boer War and once again served with the Mounted Infantry. He was finally discharged in January 1904.
Sold with copy discharge papers and other research.
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