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19 April 2023

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№ 388

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19 April 2023

Hammer Price:
£700

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878-9 (1771. Pte. R. Ward. 1/13th Foot.) small edge bruise and a little polished, otherwise nearly very fine £500-£700

Ex Fuller Collection.

Robert Ward was born in St Pancras, London, and attested for the 1/13th Foot at Westminster, aged 18, on 5 July 1869. He served overseas in the Mediterranean, including Gibraltar 1869-72, and Malta 1872-74; South Africa, including Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal and Zululand 1874-79, including the Sekhukhune campaign of 1878 and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. He was discharged to pension, aged 39, on termination of his second period of his limited engagement at Aldershot on 1 August 1890.

Sold with copied discharge papers.