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12 November 2020

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Lot

№ 96

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12 November 2020

Hammer Price:
£170

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (1147 Pte. J. Edwards 1st. Bn. R.W. Fus.) edge bruise, good very fine £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

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S. Edwards attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and served with them in India and subsequently in South Africa during the Boer War. He was severely wounded at Roodam on 5 May 1900- the Regiment suffered the loss of Captain R. G. B. Lovett and four other ranks killed, and 19 other ranks wounded in this action (also entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal; and the King’s South Africa Medal with both date clasps).

Sold with copied medal roll extracts.