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20 August 2020

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The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

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№ 329

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20 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£110

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (8445 Pte. J. H. Riggs. Middlesex Regt.) light contact marks, good very fine £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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John Hubert Riggs was born in 1880 and attested for the Middlesex Regiment at Hounslow on 10 February 1902. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he served with them in South Africa during the latter stages of the Boer War, and was discharged on 1 August 1902.