China 1900, no clasp (31888 Gr. H. Miles. No. 91 Co. R.G.A.) contact marks and edge bruising, polished and worn, therefore fine £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Artillery.

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Henry Miles was born in Crewe, Cheshire, in 1879 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Chester on 28 November 1898, having previously served in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. He served with the Artillery in South Africa during the Boer War from 9 December 1899 to 17 July 1900 (entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Paardeberg, and Driefontein), and then in China from 18 July 1900 to 12 August 1901. After further soldiering in India he transferred to the Reserve on 15 January 1907, and was discharged on 27 November 1910, after 12 years’ service.

Sold with copied record of service.