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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 36

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (A. E. Holloway. Post and Telegraph Staff.), very fine and rare

Just 12 Medals issued to the unit.

Albert Ernest Holloway was born at Alresford, Hampshire in 1870, the son of William Holloway, a Farm Bailiff of Coombe Farm, Old Alresford, Hampshire. By 1891 he was employed as a Post Office Clerk at 4 Mitre Street, Cheltenham. Having served in Rhodesia in 1896 (Medal), by 1901 he was a Post Office Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist, now with his with his wife and son, living at 3 Mossleigh Terrace, St Marys, Cheltenham. He died on 1 April 1910 at his home at 4 Denmark Terrace, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham and is buried at the Cheltenham St Mary Churchyard.


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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£280