Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. B. Harley, Natal Rangers, later Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Royal Highlanders

Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Pte. J. B. Harley, Natal Rangers); British War and Victory Medals (S-13508 Pte. J. B. Harley. A. & S.H.) good very fine (3) £240-£280

James B. Harley was born in Abbotshall, Fifeshire, in 1873, and having emigrated to South Africa attested for the Transvaal Scottish Regiment, serving with them as part of ‘C’ Company, Natal Rangers, during the Bambata Rebellion of 1906. The Natal Rangers took part in the Nkandla Operations and in the Battle of Mome Gorge on 10 July 1906, during which the rebel Zulu chief Bambata and most of his followers were killed.

Returning to Scotland in 1906, Harley attested for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and served with both the 14th and 8th Battalions during the Great War, subsequently transferring to the Royal Highlanders.

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