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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 122

China 1842 (James Begg, Serjeant. 26th Regiment Foot.), extremely fine, with accompanying War Office letter, named to Arabella Begg, and dated 31.5.1848 Estimate £ 500-700 Sergeant James Hope Begg, born Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, February 1809, the son of John Begg and Isabella Burness, and the nephew of Robert Burns, the poet; served with the 26th Regiment of Foot in China; died Chusan, China, November 1840. For the group of Three to Colonel Robert Burns-Begg, see Lot 65

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£1,900