Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private A. F. Bolling, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4844 Pte. A. Bolling. L.N. Lanc: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4844 Pte. A. Bolling. L.N. Lanc: Regt.) number on KSA officially corrected, contact marks and polished, good fine (2) £160-£200

Arthur Frank Bolling was born in Southwark, London, around 1876. A labourer, he attested for the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at London on 4 June 1895, and witnessed overseas service in Ceylon from 22 October 1896 to 10 February 1899, and South Africa from 11 February 1899 to 3 October 1902. Present at the siege of Kimberley, he was discharged from the 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, on 3 June 1907. Re-enlisting at the outbreak of the Great War, Bolling served in France with the Middlesex Regiment from 3 December 1914 to 5 October 1915, before transferring to the Labour Corps and Royal Flying Corps on home service for the duration of hostilities.

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