Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sapper H. March, Royal Engineers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (1295 Sapr. H. March. R.E.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1295 Sapr. H. March. R.E.) the KSA with re-pinned suspension and slightly bent suspension bar, edge bruising, nearly very fine (2) £120-£160

Dix Noonan Webb, September 1999.

Harry March was born in Poplar in 1875 and attested at Woolwich for the Royal Engineers on 7 October 1897. A fitter by trade, he qualified Skilled Telegraphist (Line) on 4 July 1899 and served in South Africa from 21 October 1899 to 16 October 1902. Transferred to the Army Reserve at Weymouth in 1905, he was discharged upon termination of his first period of engagement on 6 October 1909.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.