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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 311

Three: Private D. Lowther, Northumberland Fusiliers, who died of disease at Tabaksburg on 31 December 1901

Queen's Sudan 1896-98, no clasp (4521 Pte. D. Lowther. 1/Northd Fus:); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4521 Pte D. Lowther. North'd. Fus:); Khedive's Sudan 1986-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (4521 Pte. D. Lowther. 1st Batt: Nth. Fus:), minor contact wear and edge bruising to all, overall good very fine (3)

Note that whilst the recipient is entitled to clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal, Medal appears entirely as issued.

D. Lowther served with 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in the Sudan, notably during their participation in the Battle of Omdurman. During this action they formed part of the 2nd Brigade under Lyttleton, stationed against the Nile River.

Posted to the Army Reserve after the Sudan Campaign, Lowther returned to the colours for service in the Boer War with the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. Seeing heavy fighting in the opening years of the conflict he was attached to the 10th Mounted Infantry in 1901. Whilst there, he contracted a fatal disease which he succumbed to at Tabaksburg on 31 December 1901; sold together with copied medal rolls and transcriptions of medal rolls.

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£380

Starting price
£180