Special Collections

Sold on 30 March 2011

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A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers

Lot

№ 15

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£210

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut. W. A. James, Naauwpoort D.M.T.) nearly extremely fine £120-160

Walter Ashton James was born in 1855. As a Bookkeeper, aged 46 years, living at 9 East Bank, Stamford Hill, London, he enlisted as a Private in the Naauwpoort Town Guard on 1 July 1901 and was later appointed a Lieutenant in the Naauwpoort District Mounted Troops. His medal was issued in 1906. The Naauwpoort D.M.T. had a Captain and five Lieutenants. 128 medals to the unit. With copied roll extracts.