Auction Catalogue

2 April 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 83

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2 April 2003

Hammer Price:
£420

Pair: Sergeant C. Burr, The Gordon Highlanders

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (8253 Pte., Gordon Highrs.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (365 Sjt., 5/Gordon Hdrs.) dated clasp unofficially riveted, nearly extremely fine (2) £180-200

Sergeant C. Burr was slightly wounded at Lydenburg on 8 September 1900, while serving with the 2nd Gordons.

Burr came from Strichen, Aberdeenshire and was a member of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders. He served in South Africa as part of the 2nd Service Company, attached to the 2nd Gordons. The Company joined the 2nd Battalion in April 1900 and served with it until posted to Cape Town that October where it was employed in guarding Boer prisoners. In December the Company was sent on convoy duty and in April 1901 it was embarked on the
Tagus bound for home.

A portrait of Burr appears in
A Record of Northern Valour.