Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (373 Corpl. A. C. Hadfield N. Z’land M.R.) minor bruise to clasp otherwise good very fine £180-£220

A. C. Hadfield, a farmer from Marton, Rangitikei, New Zealand, served in the Hotchkiss Gun Detachment, New Zealand Mounted Rifles, as part of the Second New Zealand Contingent, leaving Wellington on board the S.S. Waiwera on 20 January 1900. He was taken seriously ill at Cape Town with enteric fever and was invalided to New Zealand on the S.S. Gothic 28 July 1900.