Lot Archive

Lot

№ 746 x

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1 December 2010

Hammer Price:
£180

Four: Acting Corporal T. Clark, Royal Artillery, late Scottish Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (23671 Pte. T. Clark, Scot. Horse); 1914-15 Star (990 Gnr. T. Clark, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (990 A. Cpl. T. Clark, R.F.A.), the first with edge bruising and polished, thus fine, the third with crude, soldered replacement suspension claw, otherwise nearly very fine (4) £200-250

Thomas Clark was severely wounded at Boschmanspoort on 13 December 1901, while serving in the 2nd Scottish Horse, and was discharged at Aldershot in September 1902.

Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he first entered the French theatre of war as a Gunner in a Territorial R.F.A. unit in May 1915.