Special Collections

Sold between 21 September & 2 April 2003

3 parts

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Medals to The Gordon Highlanders and Associated Units from the Collection of A.J. Henderson

Arnold James Henderson

Lot

№ 139

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2 April 2003

Hammer Price:
£80

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (No. 457 Pioneer Sjt. J. H. Krause, 6th Infy.), together with related Cape Town Highlanders’ Shooting Medals (2), in gold and enamel (named and dated 1924-25), and silver and enamel (named and dated 1925-26) the first with contact marks and polished, otherwise very fine, the last two good very fine or better (3) £80-100

The Cape Town Highlanders became part of the 6th Infantry Battalion just before the outbreak of the Great War, and were later to become the 4th South African Infantry Battalion.