Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (3645 Cpl. J. A. C. Grant. Oxford: Lt. Inft.) nearly extremely fine £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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John Arthur Charles Grant was born at Aldershot in 1874. He served in the South African War with the Oxfordshire Light Infantry and died of enteric fever on 17 December 1900, at Norval’s Pont. He is commemorated on the Boer War Memorial to the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Edward Brooks Barracks, Abingdon.

Sold together with a small photographic image of the recipient.