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A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press

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№ 319

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26 July 2023

Hammer Price:
£440

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Civ: Vet: Surg: J. H. Hulseberg, A.V.C.) officially impressed naming, good very fine £200-£300

John Henry Hulseberg qualified in London on 15 December 1897. During the Boer War he saw service in South Africa for an unknown period of time as a Civilian Veterinary Surgeon attached to the Army Veterinary Department at Mooi River. After the war he returned to England. He succumbed to meningitis at the College Hospital, St Pancras, London, after many years of suffering, on 2 February 1914, aged 46. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Hulseberg, Army Medical Department.