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№ 103

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19 September 2013

Hammer Price:
£150

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (861 Tpr. S. C. Wallach, Kitchener’s F.S.) heavy edge bruising to reverse, very fine £120-160

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Sigward Charles Wallach, an American, a Blacksmith by trade, living with his wife at 707 Victoria Park, Durban, Natal, enlisted into Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts on 12 January 1901, aged 30 years. The published casualty roll records a ‘Trooper S. Wallach, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts’ (no service number given) as being severely wounded at Klipkraal, 27 February 1901. With copied service paper, roll extracts and casualty details.