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Auction: 18002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 302

(x) Native Levies

The Native Levies were specially raised formations for the defence of the Natal Border during a state of emergency. By the close of the war, some 484 individual Colonial officers had served with the Natal Native Contingent, Border Guards, Native Levies and Wood's Irregulars, but a mere handful - just five men - qualified for the Medal with '1879' clasp.

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Capt: C. Macrae, Native Levies.), re-affixed suspension and onetime brooch-mounted, good fine

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£1,900