Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star, with copy clasp (6747 Pte. H. Crook. S. Wales Bord.) good very fine £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers.

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Harry Crook was born in Battersea in 1880 and attested for the South Wales Borderers on 12 May 1900. He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, and received the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Belmont, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902.

He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 August 1914, and was wounded in action. Returning to England he died, aged 35, at the Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley, on 27 September 1914. and is buried in Netley Cemetery, Hampshire.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card and other research including War Diary pages for September 1914.