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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 919

(x) Three: Driver H. Reid, No. 26 South African Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, late South African Irish Regiment

1914-15 Star (H. Reid S.A. Irish Rgt.); British War and bilingual Victory Medals (Dvr. H. Reid. S.A.S. R.F.C.), good very fine (3)

Harry Reid attested for the South African Irish Regiment on 6 October 1914 and served with the mechanised transport at Zomba, Malawi, and Kilwa, Tanzania. Suffering variously from blackwater fever, malaria and pneumonia and recorded as 'dangerously ill' at Dar es Salaam on 4 September 1917, Reid returned home to Roberts Heights and soon thereafter applied for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps. Employed as a Fitter, he embarked for England at Cape Town aboard the troopship City of Karachi on 6 June 1918 and witnessed service in the final months of the war with No. 26 S.A.S., Royal Flying Corps; sold with copied service papers and 75th Anniversary First Day Cover commemorating No. 26 (S.A.) Squadron, R.F.C., Operations in East Africa 1916, RSA 4 x 7c stamps, dated 28 June 1991.

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Sold for
£290

Starting price
£60