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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 50

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel C.T. Blewitt, Royal Artillery Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lt: Col: C.T. Blewitt. R.A.), unofficial rivets between state and date clasps; Jubilee 1897, silver, good very fine or better (2) Estimate £ 280-320 Colonel Charles Turner Blewitt (1855-1906) of Heath-house, Leighton Buzzard, brother of Major-General W.E. Blewitt, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E.; entered R.M.A. Woolwich as a Gentleman Cadet, 1875; Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 1877; advanced Major 1895; service during the Boer War included in actions at Lindley and Rhenoster River (Mentioned in Lord Roberts´ Despatches, London Gazette 10.9.1901; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel); advanced Brevet Colonel, officer commanding 27th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 29.11.1904; Blewitt died of a heart attack, 12.2.1906, whilst riding with Lord Rothschild´s staghounds.

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