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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 52

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (299 Corpl: A. Eales. Durban L.I.), officially re-impressed naming, very fine

Alfred 'Alf' Eales, a resident of 20 York Avenue, Bulwer, Durban, worked for the South African Railways and later, Robertson and Cubitt. An 'enthusiastic' part-time soldier with the Durban Infantry for 32 years - in which he rose to the rank of Regimental Sergeant-Major - he was present during the Relief of Ladysmith on the afternoon of 1 March 1900, when South African troops under the Earl of Dundonald, with Winston S. Churchill by his side, helped relieve the besieged town. Eales later served during the 1906 Bambata Rebellion (Medal & clasp) and the Great War (1914-15 Star trio); sold with copied research.


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