Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Gunner C. H. Card, Royal Horse Artillery, who was wounded at Uitval’s Nek on 11 July 1900

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (81345 Gunr. C. H. Card. A. By. R.H.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between fifth and sixth clasps (81435 Gnr: C. H. Card, O. Bty., R.H.A.) QSA partially officially corrected; contact marks, polished and worn, nearly very fine (2) £300-£400

C. H. Card attested for the Royal Horse Artillery and served with ‘A’ Battery on the Punjab Frontier (one of only 22 two-clasp medals awarded to the Battery), and with ‘O’ Battery in South Africa during the Boer War from 10 February 1900. He was wounded a Uitval’s Nek on 11 July 1900.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts, with the recipient’s service number at variance on the rolls as per the medals.

The first clasp on the QSA is Relief of Kimberley, not Relief of Mafeking.