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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 652

(x) Pair: Private F. Prickett, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who was wounded at the Battle of Bakenlaagte

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2593 Pte. F. Prickett. K.R.R.C.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04, this last with erased naming, good very fine (2)

Frederick Prickett served in South Africa with the 25th Mounted Infantry and 4th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was one of 210 Commonwealth troops who set up a defensive position on 'Gun Hill' at Bakenlaagte and fought approximately 900 Boers in a close-quarter 20-minute gun fight that ended only when the column rear-guard was annihilated. Great bravery was demonstrated by the men on both sides with combined casualties numbering approximately 87 killed and 182 wounded. Colonel Benson died the next morning from wounds received on the battlefield. Frederick survived this encounter but died on 2 August 1903 at Aden as a result of an abscess on his liver.

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