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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 536

(x) Pair: Superintendent of Transport A. J. B. O'Callaghan, Army Service Corps

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Supt. of Transport A. J. B. O'Callaghan); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Supt. of Tpt. A. J. B. O'Callaghan, A.S.C.), better than very fine and scarce rank (2)

Augustus John Barry O'Callaghan was born in Oxford in 1873, the son of a Clerk of Works and Surveyor in the building trade. Having sailed for the Cape in the S.S. Scott in 1896, when he described his occupation as 'traveller', Augustus was attached - as a civilian - to No. 34 Company of the Army Service Corps as a Superintendent of Transport in the Boer War. He died at Wellington, Shropshire in 1963; sold with copied medal roll verification.


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