Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (31022 Dvr. T. McDonald, 66th Bty. R.F.A.) good very fine £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the Boer War formed by Doug Jenkins.

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T. McDonald served with the 66th Battery, Royal Field Artillery in South Africa. The Battery lost four of its guns at Colenso, 15 December 1899, and in the heroic effort to save them six Victoria Crosses were won, including that by Lieutenant the Hon. F. H. S. Roberts, the son of Field-Marshal the Lord Roberts of Kandahar.