Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (3174 Pte. S. Smale, Devon: Regt.) edge bruising, very fine £140-£180

Samuel Smale was born in Tavistock and attested for the Devonshire Regiment on 22 January 1891. He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, and died of enteric fever at Ladysmith on 22 May 1900.

Sold with copied medal roll extract, and extract from the Record of Deceased Soldiers’ Effects.