Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (8553 Pte. S. Barge. Hampshire Regt.) light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £100-£140

Sidney Barge was born in Sydney, Australia, and attested for the Hampshire Militia on 6 September 1898, being then resident in Gosport, Hampshire, a painter by trade, aged 18 years 11 months. In June 1900 he was called up for permanent duty with the Regular Forces and served with the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, in South Africa 1900-1902. He was killed in a railway accident near Barberton, South Africa, on 30 March 1902. Also entitled to K.S.A. and sold with copied medal roll extracts for both medals.