Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (1793 Pte S. Cowles. Worcester: Regt) nearly extremely fine £100-£140

S. Cowles served during the Second Boer War with the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, and was accidentally shot and killed at Rietfontein on 8 December 1900 (latest published transcription of casualty roll erroneously lists his number as ‘1763’, and his initial as ‘G’).