Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Kimberley (5573 Pte. J. McGee. S. Lanc: Regt.) edge knocks and bruising partly obscuring naming, otherwise very fine £140-£180

J. McGee served during the Boer War with the 1st Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) and was wounded on 22 February 1900 in Natal. This is confirmed in the Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, which notes the recipient’s surname as Magee, and lists a large number of men wounded during the Battle of Tugela Heights from 14 to 27 February 1900.