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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 80

(x) The Queen's South Africa Medal awarded to Private G. Hardwell, Gordon Highlanders, who was killed in action at the Battle of Ypres in October 1914, on the very same day one of his officers, Lieutenant J. A. O. Brooke, won the Victoria Cross

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6977 Pte. G. Hardwell. Gordon Highrs.), unofficial rivets, light pitting, nearly very fine

Gray Hardwell arrived in France as a Private in the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders on 7 October 1914. A little over a fortnight later, on the 29th, he was killed in the Battle of Ypres, the same date on which a battalion officer, Lieutenant J. A. O. Brooke, won the V.C.: such was the fierce nature of the fighting that a single platoon counted 230 dead Germans in front of its positions.

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