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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 827

Pair: Cadet J. W. Wiggill, Royal Air Force, late Trooper, South African Horse

British War Medal (184281. Cadet. J. Wiggill. R.A.F.); Victory Medal, South African bi-lingual issue (Pte. J. W. Wiggill. 9th S.A.H.), unusual combination, good very fine (2)

Joseph William Wiggill was born in April 1898 at Cathcart, South Africa. During the Great War he served initially in East Africa with the 9th South African Horse, in this period contracting malaria fever and being invalided home. Travelling to Britain during 1918, Wiggill enlisted in the Royal Air Force on 13 October 1918 as a Cadet. Despite the Armistice, he was passed fit as a Pilot or Observer and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 14 February 1919, returning to South Africa on 11 April 1919. His British War Medal was sent in December 1923, while Wiggill died at Valencia Farm, East London, South Africa on 24 March 1950; sold with copied research and service records.

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