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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 169

(x) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (334 Tpr: L. Hunter. Kitchener's F.S.), the last clasp unattached, slight edge bruise, very fine

Lynn Hunter was born in 1871 enlisted at Salisbury on 27 December 1900.

Kitchener's Fighting Scouts were formed in December 1900 to fight in the Transvaal. Commanded by the legendary frontiersman, Johan Wilhelm Colenbrander - Rhodes' guide into Rhodesia and one of the few men to have killed a lion with his bare hands - their reputation as ferocious opponents, hard riding and drinking toughs made them feared in the Transvaal. Their clashes and fights with General Christiaan F. Beyers and his Commando were one of the epic features of the Guerilla War. No other Irregular unit had such a fine record for the capture of convoys and prisoners; sold together with copied medal rolls.

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Sold for
£150

Starting price
£100