Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (30 Sjt: Maj: C. O. Armstrong. Willowmore R.C.) poor attempt to obliterate surname, otherwise very fine and scarce to unit £100-£120

Sergeant-Major Armstrong served in the Willowmore Railway Contingent.

Willowmore was a town in the Cape Colony, 50 km NE of Uniondale and was attacked by Boer forces on at least two occasions following the Second Boer invasion of the Cape Colony. The first attack occurred on 19 January 1901; the second on 1 June 1901. Commandant Gideon Scheepers led both of these commando attacks.