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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 189

Three: Sergeant J. Owen, Volunteer Company, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, later Rifle Brigade

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (7570 Sjt: J. Owen. Vol: Coy. R. W. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (26 Sjt. J. Owen. Rif. Brig.), first with unofficial - rather crude - rivets between first and second clasps, second clasp with repair, very fine (3)

John Owen was born at Holyhead and was a harness maker and saddler upon his joining the Volunteer Company in February 1901, at that time serving with the 3rd Volunteer Battalion. He served in South Africa and was discharged on 28 June 1902. During the Great War he served in Egypt from January 1916 and latterly in Salonika from November 1916-August 1917 with the 22nd (Wessex & Welsh) Rifle Brigade.

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