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Auction: 21103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 4
Lot: 17

The Queen's South Africa Medal awarded to Lance-Corporal J. W. Elliott, Imperial Light Infantry, who died of wounds on 1 May 1900

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (517 Corpl: J. W. Elliott, Impl: Lt. Infy.), officially re-impressed naming, very fine

Joseph William Elliott enlisted on 11 November 1899. He died of wounds at Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg on 1 May 1900. Having been delivered to that place, medics amputated his leg but he died after the operation to save his life.

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