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Auction: 21103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 4
Lot: 154

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1180 Pte F. Dockett. D. of E. Own V.R.), good very fine

F. Dockett died of disease at Touws River on 8 March 1900.

The Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles, raised in 1855, were mobilised on 16 October 1899. They did sterling work in Cape Colony snuffing out the Rebellion, sent a detachment to Walvis Bay and had four and a half companies heavily engaged at Faber's Put on 30 May 1900.

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