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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Transvaal (3300 Pte F. Gardner. Oxford: Lt Infy:) edge bruise, contact marks, nearly very fine £120-£160

Frederick Gardner, a groom from Reading, Berkshire, was born in 1869. He attested into The Oxfordshire Light Infantry in November 1889. Posted to the 2nd Battalion in India, he saw further service in Burma, before returning to India, where he was awarded the Indian General Service Medal with the clasp ‘Punjab Frontier 1897-98’, before his transfer to the Army Reserve. He rejoined the 1st Battalion in December 1899 and served in South Africa during the Boer War, where he was severely wounded in the groin at Paardeberg on 18 February 1900. Gardner was also awarded a King’s South Africa Medal with the usual two date clasps, and was discharged in July 1902. Later, on 2 March 1928, he was admitted as an In-Pensioner to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, where he died, aged 60, on 17 March 1930.

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