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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 649A

(x) The mounted group of six miniature dress medals awarded to Captain K. F. Smuts-Erasmus, Botha Regiment, South African Army

John Chard Decoration, silvered, unnumbered, with crossed swords upon riband; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, good very fine (6)

Kenneth Francis Smuts-Erasmus was born on 29 June 1916. He enlisted into the Botha Regiment on 1 July 1936, serving in North Africa during the Second World War with the rank of Sergeant, in the 2nd Battalion. His service record states that on 28 November 1941 he was wounded in the right knee and elbow, also receiving a shrapnel wound to his back. These wounds likely occurred during the closing stages of 'Operation Crusader'. He gained a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Railways and Harbours Brigade, becoming officer commanding 'A' Company on 1 March 1947. He advanced to Lieutenant on 11 February 1950 and Captain on 15 April 1951. He spent a year as an instructor with the Pretoria Army Cadet Force before being declared 'permanently medically unfit' on 12 May 1952.

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