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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 747

Three: Private M. D. Greeff, Brand's Free State Rifles, South African Forces

1914-15 Star (Pte. M. D. Greeff Brands F.S. Rfls.); British War and bi-lingual Victory Medal (Pte. M. D. Greeff. Brands F. S. Rfls.), very fine and scarce (3)

Brand's Free State Rifles were formed in South Africa in January 1915 as part of 5th Mounted Brigade. They took the name of Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, G.C.M.G., fourth state President of the Orange Free State from 1864 to 1888, whose saying 'alles zal recht komen als elkeen zijn plicht doet' (all will be well if everyone does his duty) is still well known to this day.

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