Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (2930 Cpl. W. Fifield, S. Wales Bord.) edge bruising, good very fine £70-90

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

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William Fifield was born in Wootton-under-Edge, Bristol, Gloucestershire. A Labourer by occupation and a member of the 3rd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (Militia), he attested for the South Wales Borderers on 15 October 1889, aged 18 years, 1 month. He served in South Africa, January 1900-February 1901, being invalided to England. Discharged in January 1906. With copied service papers and roll extracts.