Auction Catalogue

4 December 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 375

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4 December 2001

Hammer Price:
£210

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (9638 Pte. P. Beirne, Cldstm. Gds.) fitted with silver straight bar ribbon brooch inscribed ‘South Africa 1901’; together with original vellum certificates (2), comprising Certificate of Character; and Certifificate of Discharge, this stating ‘He is discharged in consequence of his having been found medically unfit for further service through the result of service during the South African War 1899-1901.’ top clasp a tailors copy, very fine £80-100