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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 690

(x) Herschel Native Police

The Herschel Native Police, comprising 200 Basutos with white officers, were raised in 1900 to keep order in the Herschel District near the Basutoland border and in particular to protect the locality against any guerrilla incursions and also to deter cattle rustlers. Nine officers appear on the unit's medal roll.

King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Captain J. Rein. Herschel N.P.), good very fine and rare

Sold with copied roll entry and photograph entitled, 'Staff of Herschel Native Police Officers in Boer War, 1902'.

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