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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 654

(x) Pair: Sergeant Instructor of Musketry, W. J. Humerston, King's Royal Rifle Corps

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (4230 Sejt.-Inst: Msky: W. Humerston, K.R.R.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R. (4230. Cr. Sgt. W. Humerston, K. R. Rif: C.), the first with officially re-impressed naming, the fourth clasp loose as issued, cleaned, very fine (2)

William James Humerston was born in 1855 at Widmore Street, Bromley, Kent, serving with the 60th Rifles as Sergeant Instructor of Musketry from 1875. He was discharged at Mallow, County Cork on 18 April 1902 and died in 1903.

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