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№ 106

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28 March 2002

Hammer Price:
£780

A Zulu War medal to Private R. Babbington, 3/60th Foot, wounded at Ingogo River in 1881

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (858 Pte. R. Babbington, 3/60th Foot) light edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson.

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Richard Babbington was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, and enlisted for the 60th Rifles at Grantham on 8 July 1876. He served in the Zulu War of 1879 from March 1879, and during the Boer War of 1880-81. He was wounded at Ingogo River on 8 February 1881, by a gunshot in the right forearm, the bullet entering just above the wrist and passing up through the muscles of the forearm. He was consequently invalided out on 4 October 1881.