Auction Catalogue

11 October 2023

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Lot

№ 692

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11 October 2023

Hammer Price:
£220

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (4597 Cpl A. Drake, 41st Coy 12th Imp. Yeo.) good very fine £70-£90

Alfred Drake was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, and having served with the Hampshire Carabiniers attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Newport in January 1900. He served with the 41st (Hampshire) Company, 12th Battalion in South Africa, January 1900 - June 1901, and was discharged during the latter month.

Sold with copied service papers.