Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Private J. T. Wright. Aliwal N.T.G.) nearly extremely fine £100-£140

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2014.

Approximately 70 medals awarded to the Aliwal North Town Guard.

Note: Aliwal North was notoriously disloyal at the beginning of the Boer War when it was occupied by the Boers at the invitation of the inhabitants. Following its occupation by the British a small Town Guard was formed.