Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (448. Serjt. W. B. Anderson. A.P.C.) engraved naming, contact marks, polished and worn, therefore good fine £60-£80

William Barr Anderson was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, around 1857. He attested at Newcastle for the Northumberland Fusiliers 8 November 1882 and was transferred to the Army Pay Corps as Probationary Staff Clerk 31 December 1891. Posted to South Africa from 4 December 1899, he was discharged after 21 years of service on 7 November 1903, his character noted as ‘fair - formerly good’. The recipient’s Army Service Record adds: ‘This N.C.O. is occasionally addicted to drink.’

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