Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (5205 Pte. H. J.... M.... Regt.) attempt to obliterate name and unit, but details still just about legible, sometime harshly cleaned, edge nicks, fair to fine £60-£80

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

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5205 Private Henry James was born in about 1878 in Manchester. He attested for service in the Manchester Regimant at Ashton Under Lyne at the age of 19, with service number 5205. He joined 1st Battalion the Manchester Regiment when it embarked for South Africa in the S. S. Goth on 23 August 1899. Henry James was wounded at Caesar’s Camp when serving in the Defence of Ladysmith, and subsequently died of enteric fever at Chieveley on 24 March 1900. He is commemorated on the Boer War Memorials at Ladysmith and St. Anne’s Square, Manchester.