Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

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

№ 109

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£430

Ashantee 1873-74, 1 clasp, Coomassie (1921 Serjt. P. Bateman, 42nd Highds. 1873-4) good very fine £400-450

Peter Bateman was born in Stirling and enlisted at Glasgow in April 1858. He received a gun shot wound in the chest when he was maliciously shot on 6th December 1876, by a Private of his regiment with a revolver, and was consequently discharged at Malta on 5th August 1878. Sold with copy discharge papers which give his regimental number as ‘1927’.