Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 151

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£140

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (777 Tpr. S. J. Sandecombe, Kaffrn. Rifles) officially re-impressed, good very fine £150-200

Private S.J. Sandercombe is recorded as having died of disease at Petersburg, 5 May 1902 whilst serving with the 1st Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts. It is probable that the medal was initially named to the recipient in this unit, (the 1st K.F.S. did not qualify for the Wepener clasp), and then re-impressed to his original unit, the Kaffrarian Rifles.