Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878 (1885. Pte. G. Parrott. 80th. Foot.) nearly extremely fine £500-700

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2001.

George Parrott was born in Marylebone, London, in 1847, and attested for the 80th Regiment of Foot at Westminster on 22 February 1872. He-rejoined the Regiment under a general amnesty, having previously deserted, on 25 August 1874, and served with them in South Africa, before transferring to the Army Reserve on 4 October 1879.