The Sid Thurgar Collection of Boer War Medals

Pair: Private G. Morgan, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (6287 Pte. G. Morgan, K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6278 [sic] Pte. T. [sic] Morgan. K.R.R.C.); together with a King’s Royal Rifle Corps cap badge, edge bruising, suspension claw re-affixed on QSA, with rivet filed down, very fine and better (2) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sid Thurgar Collection of Boer War Medals.

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G. Morgan served with the 3rd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps in South Africa during the Boer War.

Sold with the recipient’s original Description Card for Active Service; an envelope from the front sent to ‘W. Morgan in Milford Haven’; a vesta case; and copied medal roll extracts, the recipient’s name and number on the QSA roll being corrected from ‘6278 T. Morgan’ to ‘6287 G. Morgan’