Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (5971. Pte. F. Puddifoot. 1/Oxfd. L.I.) engraved naming, some staining, otherwise good very fine £80-£100

Frank Puddifoot, a labourer from West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, attested into the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 6 June 1898. He served in South Africa during the Boer War, where he died of enteric fever at Kroonstad on 8 February 1901. He is additionally entitled to the clasp for South Africa 1901. His name appears upon the Memorial Tablet in High Wycombe Parish Church.

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