Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (1379. Sergt. W. Badger. 94th. Foot.) edge nicks, very fine £500-£700

William Badger was born in London in 1849 and attested for the 94th Regiment of Foot at Westminster on 21 May 1868. He was promoted Corporal on 15 July 1875, and Sergeant on 1 April 1878. He served with the Regiment in South Africa during the Zulu and Basuto campaigns of 1879, and the Transvaal campaign against the Boers in 1880-81. He was finally discharged from the Regimental Depot of the Connaught Rangers on 2 July 1897, after 29 years and 42 days’ service.

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