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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 751

(x) Railway Pioneer Regiment

The Railway Pioneer Regiment was raised in December 1899, 'its work being to assist in protecting the railways and repair bridges, culverts, and lines when broken' (Stirling, refers). Most of its members were refugees from Johannesburg and an excellent account of its activities can be found in Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton's Over My Shoulder.

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (139 Pte. A. Donaldson. 1st. R.P.R.), minor contact marks, good very fine and better

Sold with original Board of Trade Certificate appointing Alexander Donaldson as Master in the Merchant Service, dated 17 April 1873.

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Sold for
£170