Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Colour-Sergeant C. S. Cresswell, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Talana, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (9014 Corpl.C. Cresswell, K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (9014 Serjt., K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (9014 C. Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (9014 C. Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); Defence Medal, nearly very fine (6) £250-300

Lance-Corporal Cresswell was severely wounded in the right knee at Farquhar’s Farm on 30 October 1899. Sold with detailed research, including copied service papers, the Boer War pair representing a unique combination of clasps to the 1st Battalion.