Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (785 Pte. C. Daniels, Somerset: Lt. Infy.) very fine

Charles Daniels was born in the Parish of Birkley, near Frome, Somerset, and enlisted for the Somerset Light Infantry at Taunton on 29 October 1884, aged 19, an engineer’s labourer by trade. He served in the East Indies from February 1886 to February 1892, and took part in the operations of 1885-87 in Burma (Medal and Clasp). He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa (Queen’s medal with 4 clasps). Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll entry for Q.S.A.