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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 574

(x) Five: Serjeant R. C. Salisbury, Royal Fusiliers, late East Kent Regiment

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5919 Pte R. Salisbury, East Kent Regt); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5919 Pte R. Salisbury. E. Kent Regt); 1914-15 Star (13289 Cpl. R.C. Salisbury. R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (13289 Sjt R.C. Salisbury. R. Fus.), sometime cleaned, first two with contact marks and pitting, mounted for wear, good fine and better (5)

Riley Cullum Salisbury was born in 1881 at Long Melford in Suffolk and joined The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) in 1899. Seeing service in South Africa with the Mounted Infantry (medals and clasps confirmed on the Roll), the Great War found Salisbury as an N.C.O. in the 25th (Frontiersman) Service Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). This unusual unit was formed on 12 February 1915 by Lieutenant-Colonel D.P. Driscoll (another Anglo-Boer War veteran) and saw much hard fighting in East Africa: Salisbury's MIC notes his entering that theatre of war on 10 April 1915, and he is further noted as one of the original contingent of officers and other-ranks who sailed for East Africa aboard the Hired Troopship Neuralia (https://25throyalfusiliers.co.uk/original_battalion_roll_1.html, refers).
Salisbury later transferred to the Army Service Corps.

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£280

Starting price
£80