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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 160

South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1879 (14463. Sapper, F. Martin. R.E.), suspension slack, very fine Estimate £ 400-440 14463 Sapper Frank Martin, born Windsor, Berkshire, 1858; enlisted Royal Engineers 1877; joined 5th Company R.E., 1878, one of whose officers at the time was Lieutenant J.R.M. Chard who went on to win the V.C. at Rorke´s Drift; Martin was present in Lord Chelmsford´s Square at the Battle of Ulundi, 4.7.1879; advanced Sergeant 1887; discharged in Cape Town, 1889, having married there.

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