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Lot

№ 345

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4 December 1991

Hammer Price:
£170

A Kimberley group of three to Private Albert Bamber, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Mounted Infantry

QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (4305 Pte., L.N. Lanc. Regt. M.I.); KING'S SOUTH AFRICA, 2 clasps; KIMBE RLEY STAR 1899-1900, date letter 'c,' reverse named, mounted court syle for display with Indian Mutiny style top ribbon clasps, contact marks, good fine and better (3)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The AA Upfill-Brown Collection.

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Sold with three original parchment discharge certificates. Albert Bamber enlisted in the 1st Battalion L.N. Lancashire Regiment, from the 3rd Battalion Militia, on 2 December 1893. He was born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1875 and was by trade a piercer. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in December, 1902, and discharged atPreston on 7 January, 1910.