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8 & 9 May 2019

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Lot

№ 544

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8 May 2019

Hammer Price:
£2,400

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 9 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (Tpr: C. J. Springhall. Damant’s Horse) nearly very fine and rare £2,000-£2,400

C. J. Springhall attested for Damant’s Horse on 5 October 1899, and was discharged, ‘Time Expired’, at Cape Town on 5 February 1901. Transferring to the Field Intelligent Department, he died of disease at Heilbron of on 21 September 1901.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts which confirm all nine clasps, and other research.