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Auction: 21103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 4
Lot: 24

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (4295 Corpl: F. Calfe. Worcester: Regt.),

Frederick Thomas Calfe was born at Peckham in 1876 and was a paper hanger upon joining the Worcestershire Regiment on 16 March 1895. During the Boer War he was wounded at Slingersfontein, 12 February 1900 (Queen's Medal & 3 clasps, King's Medal & 2 clasps). Calfe died at sea aboard the Staffordshire on 6 February 1903, en route to Liverpool, due to a spine fracture and suffocation.

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