Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Modder River, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps, with traces of an additional ‘South Africa 1902’ clasp having been removed (2281 Pte. T. Hart, 1: High: Lt. Inft.) good very fine £70-£90

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Highland Light Infantry.

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Thomas Hart was born at Barony, Glasgow, on 23 May 1859 and attested for the Highland Light Infantry on 10 May 1886, having previously served in the 3rd Battalion, Scottish Rifles. He served with the Regiment in India from 7 September 1888 to 27 April 1894, and then transferred to the Army Reserve on 1 May 1894. Recalled to the Colours on the outbreak of the Boer War, he served in South Africa from 23 October 1899 to 17 February 1901, and was finally discharged from the 3rd Volunteer Battalion on 8 August 1910.