Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (2629. Lce. Serjt. H. Gauntlett. A.S.C. 1873-4) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £160-£200

Harry Gauntlett was born in the Parish of Symington, near Southampton, and attested for the Army Service Corps on 25 November 1870, aged 22 years 3 months, a clerk by trade. He served on the West Coast of Africa from December 1873 to March 1874, where he was based at Mounsey during the Ashantee campaign for which he subsequently received the medal without clasp. He was discharged on 1 December 1874, upon payment of £10.

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