Pair: Agent C. Browne, Field Intelligence Department, late 45th Company Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (9625 Pte., 45th Coy. Impl. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (Agent, F.I.D.) first with edge bruising, very fine and better, rare single clasp (2) £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals relating to the Disaster at Lindley on 31 May 1900.

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Ex Purves Collection; ex Christies 10 November 1992.

Colin Browne served with 45th (Irish Hunt) Company 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, 6 April 1900-9 March 1901; the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles, 12 March-1 September 1901, and Field Intelligence Department, 14 October-28 November 1901 and 23 December 1901-31 January 1902. taken prisoner at Lindley, 31 May 1900 but later released.

Medals and clasps confirmed. The medals mentioned in Collecting Medals and Decorations, by Alec A. Purves; Colin Browne mentioned in Arts under Arms, an University Man in Khaki, by Maurice Fitzgibbon, as ‘Colin Brown (sic), of Carrick-on-Suir, was the first attestation paper filled in for the Imperial Yeomanry in Ireland at Newbridge Barracks.’ With copied research.