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Auction: 24111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 390

(x) Four: Captain A. C. Vasey, Herschel Native Police, late Border Horse and Cape Mounted Rifles, who served as Officer Commanding Troops at Lady Grey during the Second Anglo-Boer War

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Pte A. C. Vasey. C. M. Rifles), the rank and name unofficially re-engraved; The Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal 1880–97, 1 clasp, Basutoland (Pte A. C. Vasey. C. M. Rifs.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasp, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Pte. A. C. Vasey. Border Horse); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Captain A. C. Vasey. O.C. Troops Lady Grey.), the surname officially corrected, the unit unofficially re-engraved, good very fine (4)

Note the South Africa 1877-79 appears on a supplementary roll and may as such be a late issue.

Albert Charles Vasey served with the Cape Mounted Rifles during the Anglo-Zulu War and the Basuto Gun War. Joining the 5th Company, Border Horse during the Anglo Boer War he served with them from 21 March - 31 October 1900. After this he was commissioned Captain with the Herschel Native Police and posted to the town of Lady Grey. Here he commanded the local forces earning a Cape Colony clasp to go with the clasps for Transvaal and Wittebergen which he had previously earned as a Trooper.

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Sold for
£900

Starting price
£280