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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 680

(x) A Boer War pair awarded to Sergeant-Major F. G. A. Dearman, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who had his right eye excised after an accidental wound on 20 January 1913

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (9347 Corpl: F. Dearman, K.R.R.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (9347 Sjt. F. Dearman, K.R.R.C.), edge bruising and edge nicks, otherwise good very fine (2)

Francis "Frank" George Arthur Dearman was born at Nottingham on 18 December 1877. Over a long career he served with the 4th Sherwood Foresters Regiment of Militia, together with four Battalions of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He married Charlotte Bent at Nottingham in 1912 and was injured a year later in Sierra Leone, while acting as a local Colour-Sergeant; he did not serve outside the United Kingdom during the Great War and died at Nottingham on 24 October 1948.

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