Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. E. E. Ruddell. Welsh: Rgt.) officially engraved naming, very fine £100-£140

Ernest Edward Ruddell was born at Herne, Kent, on 27 July 1881 and was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion, Royal Welsh Regiment (Militia). He served as an Assistant Press Censor in South Africa during the Boer War, and was promoted Lieutenant on 3 May 1901. He saw further service with the Royal Scots during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 January 1916, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Having emigrated to South Africa, he died in Cape Town in October 1968.