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27 & 28 February 2019

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Lot

№ 1064

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28 February 2019

Hammer Price:
£1,800

A Defence of Mafeking pair awarded to Corporal T. Gardiner, Bechuanaland Rifles, later Royston’s Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal (128 Pte. T. Gardiner. Bec’land Rif:); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Cpl. T. Gardner, Royston’s Horse) light contact marks and minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine (2) £1,200-£1,600

Provenance: J. F. Goodwin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2009.

T. Gardiner was dismissed from the Bechuanaland Rifles for misconduct. He also served in 1/Imperial Light Horse (No. 350) and 2/Imperial Light Horse (No. 2230).