Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Private J. Kidd, South African Infantry, late Natal Naval Corps and Gordon Highlanders

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 unofficial wire connection between first and second clasps (4150 Pte. J. Kidd. 1st Bn. Gord. Highrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (4150 Pte. J. Kidd. Gordon Highrs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4150 Pte. J. Kidd. Gordon Highrs:); Natal, 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (136 Seaman J. Kidd, Natal Naval Corps) service number engraved; British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (3426 Pte. J. H. Kidd, 4th S.A.I.) name, rank, and service number renamed on Great War awards, minor contact marks and edge bruising, very fine (6) £500-£700

John Kidd died on 9 March 1947, and he is commemorated on the South African War Veterans’ Memorial at Trinity Cemetery, Aberdeen.

Sold with the recipient’s riband bar and a photographic image of the Memorial.