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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 326

Pair: Private G. Scougall, Royal Irish Fusiliers

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (4333 Pte. G. Scougall, Rl: Irish Fus.); King's South Africa 1901-1902, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4333 Pte. G. Scougall Rl. Irish Fus:), contact marks and wear to naming, nearly very fine (2)

G. Scougall was taken prisoner of war at Blood River Poort on 17 September 1901. During this engagement a thousand-strong Boer commando led by Louis Botha crushed a British force under Hubert Gough; the British lost 23 killed and 21 wounded, together with 241 men taken prisoner.

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