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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 40

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (W. G. M. Richards, A.B., H.M.S Magpie), nearly extremely fine

Ex-Anglo-Boer War Anniversary 1899-1999 Auction, Spink.

89 Medals issued to the Magpie.

William Gilbert Matthews Richards was born in Brixham on 19 March 1880 and was a mason's labourer upon his joining the Royal Navy in August 1896. Having served off South Africa aboard the Magpie, he transferred to the Regulating Branch as Ship's Corporal 1st Class in May 1907. Richards died of tuberculosis at the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth on 3 August 1911.


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