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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 45

(x) India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (7157 Pte. W. Chown 1st. Bn. K. R. Rifle Corps.), nearly extremely fine

William Chown survived the wreck of the Warren Hastings which ran aground on the coastline of Réunion in the Indian Ocean on 14 January 1897. He was later killed in action at Dundee on 20 October 1899 in the first Battle of the Boer War, when a force of 4000 British troops attempted to storm Talana Hill. The British marked the Battle as a victory, but it was only a temporary reprieve from the inexorable Boer invasion of northern Natal and the British retreat into Ladysmith. British infantry casualties amounted to 51 killed and 203 wounded; sold with an erased Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Talana.

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