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20 August 2020

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The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 336

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20 August 2020

Hammer Price:
£160

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Cape Colony, unofficial rivets between fifth and sixth clasps (4971 Pte. J. Bentley, Middlesex Regt.:) one rivet replaced, edge nick, good very fine £140-£180

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

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Joseph Bentley was born in West Ham in 1876 and attested for the 4th Dragoon Guards on 22 February 1896. He transferred to the Middlesex Regiment on 20 October 1896, and was posted to the 2nd Battalion on 27 January the following year. He served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and was discharged Medically Unfit on 10 November 1901.