Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (3565 Pte. J. Beale. Oxford L.I.) suspension claw tightened, edge bruising, nearly very fine £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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James Beale was born at Witney, Oxfordshire, in 1872 and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Oxford on 21 January 1891. He was appointed to be Bugler in the 1st Battalion on 5 January 1893, and served with the Battalion in India from 4 December 1893 to 10 February 1902, seeing service on the North West Frontier of India with the Mohmand Field Force (entitled to the India General Service Medal with clasp Punjab Frontier 1897-98). Promoted Corporal on 26 June 1899, he was tried by Regimental Court Martial on 22 September 1899 for ‘using insubordinate language’, and reduced to Private. He saw further service in South Africa during the Boer War from 11 February to 4 October 1902, and was discharged on termination of his period of engagement on 20 January 1903.

Sold with copied service papers.