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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 575

Three: Corporal C. E. Schuter, 6th (Cape Town Highlanders) Regiment and 8th South African Infantry

1914-15 Star (Pte C. E. Schuter 6th Infantry.); British War Medal, contemporarily renamed; Victory Medal 1914-19, bi-lingual issue (Cpl C. E. Schuter, 8th S. A. I.), nearly very fine (3)

Charles Edward Schuter initially served with the 2nd Brigade of the South African Expeditionary Force with the rank of Private. He began the war with the 6th South African Infantry Regiment (Duke of Connaught and Strathearn's Own Cape Town Highlanders) and went absent without leave from 8 May 1917, being docked pay as a result. Transferred to the 8th Regiment on 16 May 1917 he was ill with malaria and dysentery and was discharged on 20 October 1917; sold together with copied research including MIC and disability records.

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Sold for
£70

Starting price
£30