Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State (4348 Pte. A. J. Butler, 1st. L.N. Lanc: Regt.) number double-struck, good very fine £200-£240

Andrew Joseph Butler was born in Ellesmere, Shropshire, in 1872 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Liverpool on 5 January 1892. He was discharged on 4 March 1892, and re-attested for the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at Liverpool on 16 February 1894. He served with the 1st Battalion in Ceylon from 24 January 1896 to 10 February 1899, and then in South Africa from 11 February 1899. He died of disease at Heilbron on 5 July 1900, and is commemorated on the South African War Memorial at Preston, Lancashire.

Sold with copied medal roll extract, service records, and other research.