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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 33

South Africa 1834-53 (Lieut. F.G. Hibbert, 91st. Regt.), good very fine

Colonel Francis Gordon Hibbert, born Dulwich, Surrey, November 1832; admitted to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, January 1857; Commissioned Ensign, 91st Foot, April 1851; promoted Lieutenant, November 1852; served with the Regiment in South Africa, July 1851 to November 1855, during the Third Kaffir War; slightly wounded in the left breast at Waterkloof, 4.3.1852 during operations to drive the Kaffirs from strong positions; promoted Captain, June 1855; exchanged to Royal Canadian Rifles, June 1857; promoted Major, May 1863; Lieutenant-Colonel, April 1865; Brevet Colonel, April 1870; transferred to the 20th Foot, December 1877; retired, February 1878; died, September 1913, and is buried in East Sheen Cemetery.

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