Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

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

Lot

№ 251

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£290

Pair: Corporal E. Bell, Transvaal Mounted Rifles, late (Leicestershire) Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902
, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (2230 Pte., 7th Coy. 4th Imp. Yeo.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Cpl., Transvaal Mtd. Rifles), edge bruising, very fine and better (2) £180-220

No. 7 (Leicester) Company, 4th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry.

Ernest Bell was born at Bourne, Lincolnshire and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in January 1900, aged 35 years. He was subsequently discharged in South Africa in November of the same year, in order that he could take up an appointment in the Johannesburg Police.