Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (3782. Pte. S. J. Devoisey. 1/Oxfd. L.I.) engraved naming, minor official correction to rank, light scratch to obverse field, nearly extremely fine £160-£200

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2007.

Stephen James Devoisey attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Oxford on 1 December 1891 and served with the 1st Battalion in India from 4 December 1893 to 30 April 1897. Returning home, he transferred to the Army Reserve on 1 December 1898, before being recalled to the Colours on 4 December 1899, and served in South Africa during the Boer War from 22 December 1899. He died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein on 6 June 1900.

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