Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (6867 Pte. C. Grace, Somerset Lt. Infy.) good very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 13th Regiment and Somerset Light Infantry.

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Private Grace was a member of an Active Service Company, formed by men taken from the three Volunteer Battalions of the Somerset Light Infantry, in addition to some new recruits. They sailed on the Tintagel Castle for Cape Town in March 1900, transferred to the Goorkha bound for Durban on arrival and went on to fight alongside the 2nd Battalion; accompanying research includes a copy roll extract taken from the 1900 publication O.H.M.S., by W. McLean and Ernest H. Shackleton (of Antarctic fame), and a picture of the Tintagel Castle.