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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 66

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Cpl. H. A. Robertson. Gorringe's F.C.), good very fine

Gorringe's Flying Column was raised in the Eastern Cape in January 1901 as one of the Colonial Defence Force Regiments and served under Colonel Gorringe until it was disbanded in December 1901. Colonel, later Lieutenant-General Sir George Frederick Gorringe was in November 1900 appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for services during the Boer War, and would go on to distinguish himself further as Commander of the 3rd Indian Army Corps and Chief of Staff to the Tigris Column, Mesopotamia, 1916.

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