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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 190

Three: Bugler, later Sergeant T. H. Hughes, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (8013 Bglr: T. H. Hughes. Vol: Coy. Rl: Welsh Fus); British War and Victory Medals (45570 Sjt. T. H. Hughes. R. W. Fus.), good very fine (3)

Just three Queen's South Africa Medals named to Buglers of the Regiment.

Thomas Henry Hughes was born at Holywell in 1883 and he enlisted in the Volunteer Company on 7 February 1902, having previously served in the Volunteer Battalion. Standing at just 4ft 11in, Hughes served in South Africa from 3 March-13 July 1902 and was discharged on 10 August 1902. Returning to the fold, he served with the 19th and 14th Battalion during the Great War.

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