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Auction: 21103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 4
Lot: 69

Three: Captain H. W. Stevens, D.S.O., South Wales Borderers, Manchester Regiment and King's African Rifles

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut: H. W. Stevens. S. Wales. Bord:), unofficially re-impressed naming; King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt: H. W. Stevens, S. Wales Bord:), unofficially re-impressed naming; Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (Capt: H. W. Stevens. Manchester Regt.), unofficially re-impressed naming and the second clasp a tailor's copy, very fine (3)

Harry Whitehill Stevens was born on 19 October 1874 at Jubbulpore, son of Colonel Harry Cavaye Stevens, 3rd Madras Light Cavalry, with a number of other relatives having served as Officers in the Indian Army. Educated at Cheltenham College, Stevens saw active service in South Africa and Somaliland before the Great War. During the Great War he earned a D.S.O. (London Gazette 3 June 1919 - East Africa, refers) and a French Croix de Guerre to go with a 1914-15 Star Trio. He died in East Africa on 16 February 1929.

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£110