Auction Catalogue

6 & 7 December 2017

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Lot

№ 448

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6 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£300

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (4736 Pte. G. Burrows, 1st. Dgn: Gds:) extremely fine £100-140

George Burrows served with the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards in South Africa during the Boer War, and was reported missing at Colesburg on 11 February 1901. He rejoined his regiment and died of disease at Blomfontein on 5 May 1901.

Sold together with a framed photograph Christmas Card of Private Burrows.