Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private R. Green, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (7670 Pte., Gren. Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (7670 Pte., Grenadier Guards) edge bruising, contact marks, good fine (2) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War.

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Robert Green was born in Haxley, Gloucestershire. A Labourer by occupation and a member of the 3rd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (Militia), he attested for the Grenadier Guards at Gloucester on 4 October 1898, aged 18 years, 7 months. With the 3rd Battalion he served in Gibraltar, September-November 1899 and in South Africa, March 1900-October 1902. Transferred to the Army Reserve in October 1905 and discharged as medically unfit on 2 May 1910. With copied service papers and roll extracts.