Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Hong Kong Plague and Boer War pair to Private W. Evans, Shropshire Light Infantry who was the first man of the regiment to die in the Boer War

HONG KONG PLAGUE 1894, silver (Private, S.L.I.); QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899- 1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (3031 Pte., 2nd Shropshire Lt. Infy.)goodvery fine (2)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Mike Minton.

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72 Private W. Evans died of disease at Wynberg on 23 December 1899. He was the first man of the Shropshire Light Infantry to be lost in the War and it is ironic that having served during the plague in Hong Kong that he himself should die from disease.