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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 559

(x) Hopetown Town Guard

Approximately 29 Medals were awarded to the unit, of which three were returned and one - to M. C. Hopkins - 'refused'.

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Pte. B. Lomnitz. Hopetown T.G.), extremely fine and rare

Bennie Lomnitz was born at Hessia, Germany, on 25 November 1870, the son of Meyer Lomnitz. Educated in Germany, he became partner of the firm Lilienfeld Brothers, General Merchants, wholesale and retail. He emigrated to Hopetown in 1889 and became a Member of the School Board and Library Committee, as well as a Member of Hopetown Club. Married to Hattie, daughter of Siegmund Lomnitz on 16 April 1901, he served with the Hopetown Town Guard and was issued his Medal on 6 September 1907; sold with copied roll and obituary notice, including portrait photograph of recipient.

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£200