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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps (1472 Pte. C. E. Phillips. C.I.V.) good very fine £100-£140
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.
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Charles Ernest Phillips joined the 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers and was in the Drapery trade, working for Faudel, Phillips before serving in South Africa with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers. He later served in the Provisional Transvaal Constabulary, 26 September 1900 until 1 May 1901. After the Boer War, he is reported to have remained in South Africa and to have drowned there in 1904.
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