Six: Private C. Player, Army Service Corps, late Royal Garrison Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (77191 Gnr. C. Player, 15th Coy. S.D. R.G.A.), last clasp loose on riband; China 1900, no clasp (77191 Gr. C. Player, No. 91 Co. R.G.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (79191 Gnr. C. Player, R.G.A.); 1914-15 Star (SS-16537 Pte. C. Player, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (16537 Pte. C. Player, A.S.C.), the earlier awards with contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine, the last three rather better and a rare Boer War/China combination of awards (6) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

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Just 35 men of the British Army received the Queen’s South Africa, China 1900 and King’s South Africa Medals, all of them members of the Royal Garrison Artillery; see the article A Slow Boat to China - and Back Again, and related roll, by Lt. Col. A. M. Macfarlane (O.M.R.S. Journal, Autumn 1993, pp. 198-200).