Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, block of clasps loose on riband but evidence of having previously been mounted (6822 Pte. A. J. Luxon. Som. L.I.) nearly extremely fine £70-£90

Albert James Luxon, a clerk with the Midland Clerical Office, was born around October 1876 in Burnham, Somerset. He attested into the Somerset Light Infantry on 18 January 1900 and served in South Africa with the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion during the Boer War. He was discharged on 31 March 1901 to take up employment on the Imperial Military Railways in South Africa.

Sold together with copy service papers, copy medal roll extracts and a copy of a Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser article dated 7 February 1900, with reference to the recipient’s departure to South Africa.