Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State (83 Pte. W. Boon, Oxford: Lt. Inft.) good very 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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William Boon was born at Newington, Surrey, and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Hounslow as a boy soldier and musician at the age of 14 in December 1881. His height was stated to be four foot four inches, when he enlisted. In the course of his military career he served in Gibraltar, Malta and India, and served in the South African War. He died of enteric fever, in South Africa on 20 June 1900, at Bloemfontein, and is commemorated on the Boer War Memorial of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Edward Brooks Barracks, Abingdon.