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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 150

(x) The Sudan and Boer War group of four awarded to Private A. Jones, Rifle Brigade, who was wounded at Blood River Poort on 17 September 1900, whilst attached to Gough's Mounted Infantry: Lieutenant L. A. E. Price-Davies won the Victoria Cross on the same occasion

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (1899 Pte. A. Jones. 2/R. Bde:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, (1899 Pte. A. Jones, Rifle Brigade); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1899 Pte. A. Jones, Rifle Brigade.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, contact marks and edge knocks, very fine (4)

Albert Jones was born at Stowmarket, Suffolk in March 1868. Having served in India, Hong Kong and Singapore, he saw active service in the 2nd Battalion in the Sudan.

Transferred to the 1st Battalion, Jones was one of five casualties of 'D' Company, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade on 17 September 1900, when Major Gough's 24th Mounted Infantry fought a lively engaement at Blood River Poort, near Dundee.

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