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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 192

Pair: Private G. James, Devonshire Regiment
Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (4680 Pte. G. James, Devon: Regt.); King's South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (4680 Pte. G. James. Devon: Regt.), edge bruising, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2)

4680 Private George James, born Coleford, Gloucestershire, 1873; enlisted in the Royal Monmouthshire Engineers Militia, April 1891; discharged by purchase, April 1895; enlisted in the Devonshire Regiment, January 1896; served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, September 1899 to January 1902, and present at the Battle of Elandslaagte, 21.10.1899; the Defence of Ladysmith, November 1899 to February 1900; and at Belfast, 26-27.8.1900; discharged, 23.1.1908, after 12 years' service.

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