A Small Collection of Bronze Issue Campaign Medals

Royal Niger Company Medal 1886-97, 1 clasp, Nigeria, bronze issue, the edge officially numbered ‘1799’, good very fine £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Bronze Issue Campaign Medals.

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Baba Orlar, there were two men with this name who attested into the Royal Niger Constabulary (RNC) and served with them on three or more punitive expeditions, entitling them to the award of the Royal Niger Company Medal in Bronze. Upon it’s disbandment and amalgamation into the newly formed West African Frontier Force, serving RNC men were invited to enlist in either the Northern or Southern Nigeria Regiments. A Lance Corporal Baba Ola of the Southern Nigeria Regiment is noted as having been subsequently killed in action during the Aro 1901-02 campaign.

Sold with copied research.