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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 52

(x) The Queen's South Africa Medal awarded to Private A. E. Southam, Royal Army Medical Corps, who died of enteric fever on 1 March 1901

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (13727 Pte. A. E. Southam, R.A.M.C.), the last clasp loose upon riband, with the named lid of box of issue, good very fine

Arthur Edgar Southam was born at Swanwick, Hampshire in 1881 and worked as a fruit grower prior to enlisting on 20 March 1900. Arriving in South Africa he saw serve in a number of states there but caught enteric fever and died at No. 18 General Hospital, Charlestown Natal on 1 March 1901. His cause of death is listed as eczema although this is likely an error; sold together with copied research comprising medal roll, registry of effects as well as an original cutting from the Morning Leader 6 March 1901.

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Sold for
£130

Starting price
£110