Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 clasps, Ahmed Khel, Kandahar (60/1158 ... W. Broadfield 2/60th. Foot.) heavy edge bruising with rank obscured, naming details touched up in parts, fair to fine £120-£160

William Broadfield was born in St. Pancras, London, in 1858 and attested for the 60th Rifles at Bow Street Police Court on 7 October 1876. He served with the 2nd Battalion in India and Afghanistan from 6 October 1877 to 24 January 1881, and then in South Africa during the First Boer War from 25 January 1881 to 11 January 1882. He was discharged on 21 December 1897, after 21 years and 76 days’ service, and died in Eastleigh, Hampshire, in 1955.

Sold with copied record of service.