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Auction: 24111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 387

(x) Three: Private. T. Tugday, Somerset Light Infantry

India General Service Medal 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (36th Brigade 1852 Pte Thomas Tugday 2nd Som. L.I.), unofficially re-engraved naming; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (5306 Pte. T. Tugday, Somerset. Lt. Infy.); King's South Africa 1901-1902, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5306 Pte. T. Tugday, Somerset: L. I.), mounted as worn, edge bruise to second, overall very fine (3)

Thomas Tugday was born at Kingston Deveril, Warminster, Wiltshire in 1861 and joined the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry on 18 June 1892. Posted to the 2nd Battalion for service in Burma he later rejoined the Militia and served with them during the Anglo-Boer War; sold together with two copied Militia attestations.

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Sold for
£160

Starting price
£130