Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (16 Serg. J. White. C. Pce.) light contact marks, good very fine £240-£280

John White was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in c.1859 and having emigrated to South Africa enlisted in the Cape Police (District 2, headquartered in Kimberley) as a Third Class Private on 3 September 1883. Advanced Third Class Sergeant on 23 July 1889, he served with the Bechuanaland Field Force 1896-97, and saw further served during the Boer War, at the Defence of Kimberley, where he suffered from enteric fever in October 1900. Advanced Lieutenant in the Dismounted Section, Cape Police, on 27 June 1902, he died of melancholia at Cape Town on 11 January 1911.

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