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

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (A/Chap: R. B. Redding, A.C.D.) officially engraved naming, minor edge bruises, otherwise toned, good very fine £200-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press.

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Richard Benson Redding served as an Acting Chaplain with the Army Chaplains Department in South Africa (Medal with 5 Clasps). He was appointed Chaplain on the Madras Ecclesiastical Establishment in 1903 as Chaplain of Calicut and Cannanore. Sometime shortly after April 1904, he resigned from the Church and committed suicide whilst under temporary insanity. He was buried on 11 June 1904, aged 34.

Sold with copied medal roll and other details.