Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3833. Pte. J. Knight, Glouc: Regt.) minor edge bruise, toned, very fine £140-£180

John Knight was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, in 1874 and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment at Bristol on 16 December 1892, having previously served in the Regiment’s 4th (Militia) Battalion. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 24 September 1899, and was taken Prisoner of War at Farquhar’s Farm on 30 October 1899, when his Battalion got ahead of the main relief body of the relief of Ladysmith. He spent ten months as a Prisoner of War before being released, during which he suffered from bad or little food. He transferred to the Reserve on 22 February 1903, and was discharged on 15 December 1904, after 12 years’ service. He died in Berkeley on 12 March 1940.

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