Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. Pool, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was killed in action at Belmont, 23 November 1899

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3760. Pte. A. Pool. 1/Northd. Fus:) minor edge nick; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Belmont (3760 Pte A. Poole. [sic] North’d: Fus:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (3760. Pte A. Pool. 5th Fusers.) regimentally engraved naming, generally extremely fine (3) £700-£900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from an Africa Collection.

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A. Pool was a native of Scarborough, Yorkshire. He served during the Boer War with the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, and was killed in action at Belmont, 23 November 1899. On the latter date the Northumberland Fusiliers and the Yorkshire Light Infantry had been tasked with the capture of Table Mountain, and met stiff resistance. The Boers had built sangars on the slopes and the two battalions were forced to clear these whilst under enfilade fire from a hitherto unknown Boer force on Mont Blanc, a kopje to the east of Gun Hill and Table Mountain. After a ferocious days fighting British losses, which included the Guards attack on Gun Hill, amounted to 4 officers and 71 men killed or died of wounds, and 24 officers and 199 men wounded.

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