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№ 491

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10 April 2024

Hammer Price:
£95

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902, unofficial top retaining rod (6654 Pte. C. Perry. Manchester Regt.) minor edge bruise, good very fine £100-£140

Charles Perry attested for the 6th (Militia) Battalion, Manchester Regiment on 9 January 1899 and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War. He was discharged on 8 January 1905, after 6 years’ service, of which 230 days were spent in South Africa.

Sold with the recipient’s original parchment Discharge Certificate of a Militiaman.