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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 59

x Four: Captain F.E.W. Butt, West India Regiment, Later Sapper, Royal Canadian Engineers East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (Lt. F.E.W. Butt, 1/W.I.R.); Ashanti 1900, no clasp (Capt: F.E.W. Butt. W. Ind: R.); British War and Victory Medals (1096093 Spr. F.E.W. Butt. C.E.), light contact marks, generally very fine or better, scarce (4) Estimate £ 500-550 Captain Frank Ernest Willhelm Butt, born London, 1871; he was fluent in French and German; commissioned Second Lieutenant, West India Regiment, 1894; served with the regiment in operations in Sierra Leone, 1898-99; advanced Captain 1.5.1900; specially employed on the Gold Coast, 19.1.1900-26.12.1901; served as a Sapper with the Royal Canadian Engineers during the Great War.

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