Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

3rd Volunteer Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Marksman’s Medal, 32mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the regimental crest and embossed ‘Charles Thomas Volunteer Prize Fund’, the reverse embossed ‘3rd V.B. Gloucestershire Regiment, Marksman’ and engraved ‘1902 Corpl. A. A. Forty’, with claw and small ring suspension, minor edge bruising, very fine £50-£70

Provenance: Brigadier Brian Parritt Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2007.

The 3rd Battalion Gloucester Regiment was raised in Bristol in February 1900 and served in South Africa during the Boer War.