Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (2731 Pte. P. Cody, Lanc. Fus.) official correction to initial, otherwise good very fine £200-250

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

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Wounded at Spion Kop on 24 January 1900.

Patrick Cody was born at Rochdale, Lancashire, and enlisted for the Lancashire Fusiliers on 21 September 1888, aged 18 years 9 months. He served in the East Indies from March 1891 to March 1896, but did not accompany the regiment to the Sudan. He went to South Africa in December 1899 and returned home in September 1901, being discharged on the 20th of that month.