The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 3rd Regiment, South African Infantry

Pair: Second Lieutenant N. Buren, 3rd Regiment, South African Infantry, who suffered from trench fever on the Somme in 1916, and later died from prolongued illness on 7 May 1920

British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (2/ Lt. N. Buren.) very fine (2) £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 3rd Regiment, South African Infantry.

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Nils Buren was born in Sweden around 1877, and attested for the 3rd South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 28 August 1915, stating previous service during the Boer War with various colonial units. Posted to the Western Front, his service record notes that he began to suffer from sickness and pyrexia on the Somme from 28 October 1916. He later slipped in the dark and fractured a rib on 18 November 1917; transferred to the Wellesley House Hospital for Officers, his health continued in a downward spiral resulting in paralysis to his left side following a stroke. Invalided to South Africa in March 1917, he died three years later from ‘rheumatic fever, aortic incompetence and embolism lungs’. He is buried at Thaba Tshwane (Old No. 1) Military Cemetery.

Sold with copied service record.