Lot Archive

Lot

№ 529

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4 April 2001

Hammer Price:
£220

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (29607 Pte. E. W. Jones, 14th Coy. Imp. Yeo.) toned, extremely fine £120-150

Edward Walter Jones was born at St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, and enlisted at Newcastle-on-Tyne for the Northumberland Hussars (Imperial Yeomanry) on 19 February 1901. He was severely wounded at Rhenosterfontein on 5 September 1901, and had his left leg amputated. Sold with copy service papers.