Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps (4547 Pte. E. J. Owens, R. Welsh Fus:) minor edge nicks, otherwise good very fine £100-£140

Edward John Owen, a cabinet maker, was born in Pwllheli around 1874, and enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Wrexham on 29 December 1894. He served overseas in Malta, Crete, Egypt and China, before disembarking in South Africa during the Boer War on 27 May 1900. Returned home 5 April 1901, he was discharged at Devonport 30 September 1901 with his intended place of residence noted as ‘6 Jubilee Cottages, St. Stephen’s, Saltash, Cornwall.’

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