Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private R. Boulton, Devonshire Regiment

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3095 Pte. R. Boulton. 1st. Bn. Devon: Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (3095 Pte. R. Boutlon [sic]. Devon: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3095 Pte. R. Boulton. Devon: Regt.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ issue (Richard Boulton) contact marks and minor edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (4) £260-£300

I.S.M. London Gazette 13 February 1934: ‘Postman, Fairford Sub-Office, Cirencester’.

Richard Boulton was born in Fairford, Gloucestershire. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in the Devonshire Regiment at Exeter on 11 October 1890, aged 18 years, 2 months. With the 1st Battalion he served in Egypt from January 1891 to December 1892, and in India from December 1892 to December 1898. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 20 December 1898. Recalled to Army Service on 7 October 1899, he served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from October 1899 to September 1902. He was finally discharged on 5 October 1902.

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