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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 138

South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1878 (Capt: J. Scott, Ft. Beaufort Bghs.), nearly extremely fine, scarce Estimate £ 600-700 Captain James Scott (1821-1890), born Edinburgh, Scotland; enlisted as Private Royal Engineers, 1844; served with the 9th, 10th and 15th Companies during the Second Kaffir War, 1847-48 and the 1850-53 Campaign (entitled to South Africa 1853); Second Corporal 1848; Corporal 1851; discharged 1853 and stayed in South Africa where he married; re-engaged as Captain with the Fort Beaufort Burghers for the 1877-79 conflict, including action against the Gaikas under Macoma in Water Kloof; Officer Commanding 11.12.1877, to their disbandment in May 1879. Approximately 62 ´1878´ clasps issued to the Fort Beaufort Burghers. South Africa 1877-79 published roll gives recipient as, ´should have had a clasp only´. Applicants for the South Africa 1877-79 medal who were in possession of a South Africa 1853 medal were supposed to declare the fact, whereupon they should have received an appropriately dated clasp for attachment to the earlier medal. Only 20 men are known to have been in this position. A very small number were issued with both medals despite volunteering that they held the 1853 award (O.M.R.S. Journal, Winter 1981, G.R. Everson), and this appears to be the case with Scott.

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£900