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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 225

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, South Africa 1901 (6518 Pte. G. Hilditch. E. Lanc: Regt.), the dated clasp loose as issued, very fine

George Hilditch was born in 1877 at Salford, Lancashire, and attested for the East Lancashire Regiment at Manchester on 3 September 1895. He was wounded at Zand River on 10 May 1900, whilst serving with the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. It was here that a sizeable Boer force, over 800 strong, firing from protected positions, attempted to check the British advance north from Bloemfontein to the Transvaal Capital of Pretoria. Invalided to England, Hilditch was disembodied on 30 March 1905; sold with copied service record.

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Sold for
£100