Auction Catalogue

28 March 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

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

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Lot

№ 670

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28 March 2002

Hammer Price:
£750

Siege of Beaconsfield, 14 October 1899 - 15 February 1900, ‘Children’s Medal Presented by the Town Council 1900’, silver with ring suspension, good very fine and rare £200-300

Not recorded in Hibbard.

The small town of Beaconsfield lies about a mile south-east of the outskirts of Kimberley. Much to the indignation of its inhabitants, Kekewich originally excluded the town from his plans for the defence, but, faced by so strong and indignant a protest, he was forced to provide for the defence of that place, though independently of the main defensive enclosure.