Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. Baker, South Staffordshire Regiment
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902, unofficial retaining rod affixing clasps (6081 Pte. J. Baker. S. Stafford: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (10765 Pte. J. Baker. S. Staff: R.), pitting and contact marks, nearly very fine

Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Wilfred Marshall); together with an Italian Vittorio Emanuele III Royal Household Memorial Medal, bronze, good very fine (4) £100-£140

John Baker attested for the South Staffordshire Regiment and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 May 1915. He was disembodied on 15 October 1916, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

Sold together with a Copper Powder Flask by Dixon & Sons, 195mm in length with fluted decoration, the action broken.