Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut: E. de Kleen. S.A. “Morgen Bladen”) officially engraved naming, name of publication officially corrected, very fine and very rare £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press.

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Erland de Kleen was a Lieutenant in the Swedish Artillery who, apart from his presence in an official military capacity, was also a correspondent for the Swedish publication “Morganbladen”.

Sold with copied medal roll which gives his initial as “C”; and extracts from Twice Captured. A record of adventure during the Boer War by the Earl of Rosslyn: ‘Captain Wester [Swedish military attaché], too, found a friend and fellow-countryman going down, Lieut. Erland de Kleen, an officer in the Swedish artillery, who had also come out for military purposes.’