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19 May 2021

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№ 108

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19 May 2021

Hammer Price:
£260

Four: Private W. Ward, Royal Scots

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6752 Pte. W. Ward. Rl: Scots); 1914 Star (6752 Pte. W. Ward. 2/R. Scots); British War and Victory Medals (6752 Pte. W. Ward. R. Scots) together with a renamed K.S.A. with 2 clasps (6752 Pte. W. Ward. Rl. Scots), a Royal Scots cap badge and a Great War souvenir commemorative medalet, very fine (5) £180-£220

Entitled to clasp to 1914 Star but not entitled to K.S.A.

William Ward was born at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and attested for ‘General Service Infantry’ at Bedford on 29 May 1899, aged 20 years 1 month, and was appointed to the Royal Scots. He served in South Africa from 7 September 1901 to 25 March 1902, and afterwards in India until 1 May 1907, and transferred to Army Reserve the same month. Mobilised in August 1914, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots, and proceeded to France on 20 September 1914. He received a gunshot wound to the scalp at Kemmel on 15 April 1915. He afterwards served at Salonika from 13 December 1915 until 10 May 1916, when he embarked for England per H.M.T. Euripides on ‘expiration of service’ and was discharged on 26 May 1916. Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts.