Auction Catalogue

2 July 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

.

Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 530

.

2 July 2003

Hammer Price:
£400

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, no clasp (Pte. H. H. Norton, Cape M.R.) good very fine £300-350

British Battles & Medals 1988 records that 10 Cape of Good Hope General Service medals were awarded without a clasp -Pte. H. H. Norton, Cape Mounted Rifles being one of them. In the Forsyth medal roll it states: 'Of the ten it appears that seven, could have been the victims of careless recording, but the other three, viz - to Nurse G.A. Rogers, Pte P.A. Williams, C.M.R. and L / Sgt. J. Wilson, C.M.R., show undeniable evidence that their medals were issued without a clasp.'