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№ 555

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20 April 2022

Hammer Price:
£140

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (155 Tpr. A. Brown. Warren’s M.I.) a somewhat later issue with small impressed naming and fixed suspension, polished, therefore good fine, the reverse better £70-£90

Abraham Brown was born in 1866, possibly in the United States, his wife residing at La Cross, Wisconsin at the time of his enlistment into Warren’s Mounted Infantry in January 1901. He was discharged at Cape Town in June 1902. His name appears on the medal roll for four other units: Scott’s Railway Guards (No. 1920), Western Light Horse (No. 171), Worcester District Mounted Troops (No. 34), and Peninsula Horse (No. 1355).