Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (6069 Corl. W. Stopp, Oxford: L.I.) nearly extremely fine £100-£140

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

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W. Stopp attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. He died of disease on 10 December 1900, at Heilbron, and is commemorated on the Boer War Memorial to the men of the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry who died in the South African War in Abingdon.