Pair: Band-Sergeant J. Richards, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a survivor from the Warren Hastings

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3471 Band-Serjt: J. Richards. K.R.R.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (3471 Band Sgt. J. Richards. K.R.R.C.) minor edge bruising, good very fine (2) £380-420

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Musicians formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Provenance: DNW, March 2008.

Joseph Richards was born in Wellington, Shropshire, in 1865 and attested for the 60th Rifles as a Boy on 22 November 1878. Ranked as a Bandsman in the 1st Battalion in September 1884, he was advanced to the rank of Band-Sergeant in May 1896. He was a survivor from the troopship Warren Hastings when she ran aground and was wrecked off the Island of Reunion, on 14 January 1897. Awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. in April 1898, he served with the 1st Battalion in India and Mauritius, and in South Africa from 12 March 1899 until 24 February 1901, and was discharged at Cork on 23 August 1901 after 22 years and 278 days’ service.

Sold together with a photographic image of the recipient alongside fellow Warren Hastings survivors.