Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1456 Tpr: F. Cullen. N.S. Wales M.R.) very fine £240-£280

Frederick Cullen was born on 11 October 1874. He sailed on the S.S. British Princess on 22 March 1901, and served in South Africa with “C” Squadron, 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, from April 1901 to April 1902, in Free State and East Transvaal including the Boer breakthrough at Langverwacht on 24 February 1902. He returned to Australia on 3 June 1902, and died on 24 April 1943.