Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (1301 Pte. W. C. Squance, Devon Regt.), contact marks, nearly very fine £250-300

Squance was wounded at Potgieter’s Drift in the opening stages of the battle of Vaal Krantz on 5 February 1900, while serving in the 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment; see Major-General Sir F. Maurice’s History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902, Vol. II, pp. 410-12, for full details of the action.