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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 729

A Superb India General Service and Queen´s South Africa Pair to Captain P. Price-Dent, Devonshire Regiment, Who Died of Wounds in the Defence of Ladysmith India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., three clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Tirah 1897-98, Punjab Frontier 1897-97 (Lieut. P.D. Price-Dent, Devonshire Regt.); Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith (Capt. P.H. (sic) Price-Dent. Devon. Rgt.), virtually mint state, with photographic image of recipient (2) Estimate £ 800-900 Lieutenant Phillip Hampton Price-Dent; born 1870; educated at Cheltenham College; commissioned Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment, 1891; Lieutenant 1895; served with the Chitral Relief Force under Sir Robert Low and also with the 1st Battalion in the campaign on the North West Frontier under Sir William Lockhart, and was present at the capture of Sampagha and Arhanga Passes; served in South Africa from September 1899 and commanded a Maxim Gun at the action of Rietfontein, present at Ladysmith where he was to die of wounds 31.12.1899, ´We are all feeling terribly down in the mouth to-day, as an unlucky shell came right into our mess this morning and burst there, killing poor Dalzel on the spot, and wounding eight other officers.... Price-Dent has a piece of the back of his head knocked off, exposing brain.......... Poor little Price-Dent died early yesterday morning. The doctors found that a piece of bone had been driven right into his brain. There was no hope from the first, and the only wonder is that he survived at all.´ (Letters From Ladysmith, refers); Price-Dent died at the Intombi Hospital and is buried in the Intombi Cemetery. He is commemorated on the Eleanor Cross Memorial at Cheltenham College.

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