Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5970 Pte. T. Rigg. Manch: Regt.) good very fine £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Thomas Rigg was born in 1880 at Carlisle, Cumberland, and attested as a Private into the Manchester Regiment on 20 January 1900. On 1 March 1900 he was posted to the newly formed 4th Battalion, but was transferred to the 1st Battalion, bound for South Africa. After his service in the South African War he purchased his discharge on 22 December 1902.

Sold with copied research.